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Saratoga, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Southeast Lyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42038. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton West quadrangle.

Saratoga within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Saratoga between 1997 and 2020, burning about 55 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
10 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAM HEAT
25 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBOTTLE RO
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD BIRD
21 April 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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 Saratoga: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Cobalt, Manganese, Nickel, Iron. 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
Jesse Redd ProspectCobalt, Manganese, Nickel, IronOccurrence1904

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2009Tornado (EF1)Saratoga1 hurt, $70,000This short-lived tornado began on the north side of exit 4 of the Western Kentucky Parkway. The tornado path stayed along the north side of U.S. Highway 62. The end wall of a commercial building was blown out. A mobile home was overturned. Another mobile home was unroofed. Two vehicles were damaged. Several trees and power lines were down. Two eyewitnesses observed the tornado from the south side of exit 4. One person was slightly injured when a glass window was blown out of his mobile home. He refused treatment for his hand injury. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSaratoga$50,000A microburst produced a very small but intense damage path along Eddy Creek near the Caldwell County border. Twisted metal and lumber from a destroyed roof were blown across a roadway. The roof was a pitched tin roof that was added over a flat roof. Metal debris was wrapped around a stop sign. At least one outbuilding was destroyed, and others had roofs missing or damaged. The damage area was less than one-half mile long.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSaratoga$1,000A tree was blown down across the road around mile marker 11 on KY-93.
January 2025FloodSaratoga-KY-293 was closed due to high water at Glass Creek. Approximately 2 to 2.5 inches of rain had fallen at the time of road closure, with an additional inch or rain through the evening.
November 2018FloodSaratoga-Kentucky 1943 was closed near Skinframe Creek.
May 2012HailSaratoga-The hail occurred near the junction of Highways 730 and 818.
May 2009HailSaratoga-The quarter-size hail occurred at the interchange of Interstate 24 and Highway 293.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Greenacres2.6 miles19
Eden Bay3.1 miles19
Palisades3.1 miles19
Buena Vista Estates3.6 miles19
Eddy Bay3.6 miles19
Indian Hills3.6 miles19
Paradise Hills3.8 miles19
Wildwood Hills4.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509016. 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.