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Luner, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40445. It stands on Little Trace Branch. The Survey maps it on the Billows quadrangle.

Luner within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Luner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,995 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 87 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/incendiarism87
Debris and open burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCROMER RIDGE
18 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle 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 Luner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Laurel County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luner in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 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
April 2015FloodLuner$1,000The entire length of KY 1329 was impassable due to flooding.
January 2022FloodLuner-KY-1329 is closed between mile markers 0 and 5 due to high water southwest of Livingston.

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Pongo2.7 miles14
Bloss4.7 miles14
Livingston5.4 miles15
Hansford5.5 miles16
Wellhope6.0 miles16
Sand Springs6.1 miles16
Pine Hill6.5 miles16
Sinks7.2 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122548649The 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 513733. 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.