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Meadow Lawn, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the South Dixie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40272. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kosmosdale quadrangle.

Meadow Lawn within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Lawn between 1997 and 2014, burning about 446 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOINTE BLVD FIRE
5 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEAVERS RUN FIRE
22 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Meadow Lawn: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Kosmos Cement DivisionStoneProducer
Kosmosdale PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadow Lawn in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2015Flash FloodMeadow Lawn$10,000A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report to the NWS that four people were rescued from a vehicle due to high water from torrential rainfall.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindMeadow Lawn-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines along Dixie Highway in the Watson Lane area. Parts of Dixie Highway were blocked.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Orell1.1 miles20
Medora1.5 miles20
Kosmosdale2.0 miles20
Bethany3.0 miles20
Valley3.7 miles20
Valley Station3.8 miles20
Valley Downs4.0 miles20
Valley Gardens4.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 497992. 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.