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Lyons, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hodgenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. It stands on Murphy Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Lyons within Larue County

On record in Lyons

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 1997 and 2016, burning about 264 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
17 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
1 April 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2010Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue 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 Lyons: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2013Heavy RainLyons-The LaRue emergency manager reported a 29 year old woman was swept away and drowned after driving an ATV into a swollen Otter Creek. This creek empties into the Rolling Fork River, and the accident occurred near this intersection. Although no rain gauges were located nearby, an estimated 2.5 inches of rain fell within a couple of hours at this site, with more than 3.5 upstream in Marion County.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindLyons-Two trees were downed along Younger Creek Road just west of New Haven.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLyons-Trees were downed.
May 2002HailLyons-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
Athertonville2.9 miles9
Roanoke4.9 miles10
White City (historical)6.7 miles8
Carter (historical)8.2 miles18
Leafdale8.4 miles8
Gleanings9.2 miles9
Hodgenville9.9 miles8
Tonieville10.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 497391. 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.