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Yatesville, Kentucky

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

Yatesville within Lawrence County

On record in Yatesville

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

10 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

117 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Yatesville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
23 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Natural5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yatesville in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Yatesville$20,000An EF1 tornado touched down just east of Yatesville Lake, uprooting or snapping several large trees on Aspen Drive and on Birch Road. Three houses were damaged by fallen trees on Birch Road with one home suffering extensive damage to the attached garage as a large tree fell on it. The tornado then tracked eastward, skipping along an almost six and a half mile track, crossing US 23 and the Big Sandy River just north of Louisa before continuing into West Virginia. A roughly 400 yard wide swath of rather extensive tree damage occurred on the west side of the Big Sandy River near a logging yard and two semi trailers were overturned at that location.
June 2001Flash FloodYatesville$3,000County officials reported 1 foot of water in one house, north of Louisa. Otherwise, streams flowed across roads, causing little damage.
July 2019Flash FloodYatesville$1,000Deephole Branch flooded, closing a section of Deephole Branch Road west of Louisa.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindYatesville$1,000Trees were blown down. One tree fell onto a church.
January 2025FloodYatesville$500Spankem Branch exceeded its bankfull level and washed out parts of Yatesville Road at Big Cat Fork Road.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindYatesville-Trees fell across Route 3.

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
Morgans Creek (historical)1.8 miles24
Deephole (historical)1.9 miles23
Fallsburg2.0 miles24
Five Forks2.1 miles24
Stringtown2.2 miles24
Potters (historical)2.4 miles24
Green Valley (historical)2.7 miles24
Fullers2.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509417. 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.