BlockBee Lick, Kentucky
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. It stands on Bee Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1952 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bee Lick between 1998 and 2020, burning about 318 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | COMPUTER |
| 13 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee Lick in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 3 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Bee Lick | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Bee Lick | - | A trained spotter reported that 3.51 inches of rain had fallen since 9 pm on Sunday evening. The bulk of the rain had fallen since midnight. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Bee Lick | - | A trained spotter measured 2 inches of rainfall between 6 am and noon. |
| May 2010 | Heavy Rain | Bee Lick | - | A trained spotter reported that 2.2 inches of rain fell between 7 and 9 pm near Bee Lick. The storm total rainfall was 7.45 inches since Saturday. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Bee Lick | - | A volunteer spotter reported that 2.2 inches of rain fell 5 miles west of Bee Lick Saturday night. An additional 4 inches of rain fell on Sunday, May 2nd in the same area. This resulted in some flash flooding in the Bee Lick Area. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Bee Lick | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Bee Lick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4879511 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507474. 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.