Lower Leatherwood, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Buckhorn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41721. It stands on Mud Lick. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lower Leatherwood within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1913 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Lower Leatherwood (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,422 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 59 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	59
Debris and open burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ELKHORN FUMBLE
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	WHOOPLAREA 2
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	WHOOPFLAREA
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	4 CORNERS
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saul	0.1 miles	14
Doorway	2.8 miles	13
Upper Squabble (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Bowlingtown (historical)	3.3 miles	14
Middle Squabble (historical)	3.8 miles	13
Gays Creek	5.2 miles	14
Buckhorn	5.3 miles	14
Big Hill (historical)	5.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2557199. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.