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Lytten, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It lies near Bob Horton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Lytten within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

67 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Lytten between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,075 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMOBILE HOM
24 June 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2010Debris and open burning22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning130 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB.L. LEWIS
26 April 2009Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lytten in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindLytten$10,000Trees down in Community of Ruin.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLytten-A tree was reported down on Devils Fork Road in Sandy Hook.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLytten-The department of highways relayed reports of several trees down near the intersection of Kentucky Highways 556 and 173 in Lytten.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLytten-Trees and tree limbs were down. Also small hail reported and 2.5 inches of rain in one hour.

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Devil Fork (historical)1.3 miles10
The Ridge1.4 miles10
Wyett1.8 miles11
Fannin Valley (historical)1.9 miles8
Spanglin2.7 miles10
Bigstone2.7 miles10
Little Sandy3.6 miles10
Ordinary3.7 miles8

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 LyttenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6710405The 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 508519. 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.

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.