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Summit, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clifford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It lies near Castle Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Louisa quadrangle.

Summit within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,903 acres in total. None started naturally. 65 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/incendiarism65
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
12 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUS 23
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDONATHAN R
20 May 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Summit: 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
Lick Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindSummit$2,000Trees fell onto power lines along Route 1690.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSummit$1,000A tree fell across Joe Fork Road.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindSummit-Several trees were blown down.
October 2014HailSummit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Torchlight1.6 miles24
Chapman2.0 miles24
Donathon (historical)2.4 miles24
Gallup2.4 miles24
Walbridge2.9 miles24
Holt3.3 miles24
Smoky Valley (historical)4.0 miles24
Clifford4.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509159. 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.