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Deer Lick, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40741. The Survey maps it on the Portersburg quadrangle.

Deer Lick within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Deer Lick between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,080 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
5 September 2007Natural35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #2
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #1
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Lick in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. 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
September 2003Flash FloodDeer Lick$20,000Highway 687 was flooded for a seven to ten mile stretch, with several areas at least three feet deep. Several cars were partially submerged, ruining the engines. Several roads were also underwater in Manchester.
January 2022Debris FlowDeer Lick-Clay County 911 reported a mudslide onto the Hal Rogers Parkway around mile marker 11 in western Clay County.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindDeer Lick-A power line was blown down on Hwy 80 East in Bush.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Portersburg1.9 miles13
Lebanon (historical)2.1 miles13
Larue4.0 miles13
Urban5.2 miles13
Grace5.4 miles13
Fogertown5.5 miles13
Benge5.7 miles13
Hooker5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511769. 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.