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.
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.
- Yatesville Covered Bridgelisted 1976 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:48000
- 1913 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fallsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Fallsburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
117 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 May 2001 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Yatesville | $20,000 | An 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 2001 | Flash Flood | Yatesville | $3,000 | County officials reported 1 foot of water in one house, north of Louisa. Otherwise, streams flowed across roads, causing little damage. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Yatesville | $1,000 | Deephole Branch flooded, closing a section of Deephole Branch Road west of Louisa. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yatesville | $1,000 | Trees were blown down. One tree fell onto a church. |
| January 2025 | Flood | Yatesville | $500 | Spankem Branch exceeded its bankfull level and washed out parts of Yatesville Road at Big Cat Fork Road. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yatesville | - | Trees fell across Route 3. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgans Creek (historical) | 1.8 miles | 24 | |
| Deephole (historical) | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Fallsburg | 2.0 miles | 24 | |
| Five Forks | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Stringtown | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Potters (historical) | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Green Valley (historical) | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Fullers | 2.7 miles | 24 |
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.









