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Elk Lick Neighborhood, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Sturgeon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It lies near Turkey Knob. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elk Lick Neighborhood within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

326 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Elk Lick Neighborhood (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,687 acres in total. None started naturally. 64 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 burning155
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Arson/incendiarism64
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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
Scoville1.2 miles14
Levi1.5 miles14
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)1.8 miles14
Vincent1.9 miles14
Pleasant Neighborhood (historical)2.2 miles14
Endee2.4 miles14
Travellers Rest2.7 miles14
Pebworth2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416569. 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.