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Lucky Stop, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jeffersonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40337. It lies near Science Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Means quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Lucky Stop within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Lucky Stop between 1997 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony16
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARE CHAPPEL RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lucky Stop: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
213 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucky Stop in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLucky Stop$1,000A tree was blown down into powerlines near the instersection of Rocky Branch Road and Main street, between Jeffersonville and Means.
July 2015Flash FloodLucky Stop$1,000Flood waters surrounded a home in Jeffersonville.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLucky Stop-Dispatch relayed a report of trees down at the intersection of Main Street and Science Ridge Road in Jeffersonville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLucky Stop-A large tree was blown down and onto a high tension power line along Hwy 460.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLucky Stop-One tree was blown down on power lines on Calk road. One tree fell down on Old Nest Egg near Kentucky 11.
May 2002FloodLucky Stop-Nuisance flooding was reported along US highway 460.
August 2001Flash FloodLucky Stop-Two feet of water flowing over U.S. Highway 460, the highway was closed.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Branch (historical)1.2 miles12
Salem (historical)1.3 miles12
Jeffersonville1.6 miles12
Willoughby Nation (historical)2.8 miles12
Antioch Church (historical)4.0 miles8
Hope4.2 miles8
Camargo4.4 miles12
Trimble (historical)4.4 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lucky StopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690877The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513730. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.