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Hendricks, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Magoffin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Jane Arnett Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville South quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Hendricks within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

293 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Hendricks between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,526 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Recreation and ceremony45
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDDLE PUNCHEON
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySKAGGS
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPARKWAY
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hendricks in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHendricks$10,000An NWS Employee and dispatch reported trees blown down on Mountain Parkway and Kentucky Highway 114 from near Ivyton to east of Salyersville. A vehicle that had pulled over due to heavy rain was struck by a tree, but the occupants were not injured. Powerlines were also blown down southwest of Salyersville.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHendricks$8,000A portion of a barn roof was ripped off along Route 30. Telephone poles were also snapped off in the same area by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHendricks$5,000Trees down on Route 378.
May 2018Flash FloodHendricks$2,000Emergency Management relayed a report of water flowing over Kentucky Route 30 near the Middle Fork of the Licking River southwest of Salyersville, making the road impassable. Road damage was also prevalent due to the swiftly flowing water.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHendricks$1,000One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts on Route 378 or about 5 miles off Highway 30.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHendricks-A tree was reported to have been downed and blocking Down and Around Road off of KY-30 and also south of Exit 70 along the Mountain Parkway.
February 2021Flash FloodHendricks-Swiftly flowing water was reported over KY 30 just northeast of Mill Branch Road making it impassable.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHendricks-A tree was blown down on Hwy 3337.
April 2011HailHendricks-The hail was the size of nickels and quarters and were falling near the junction of routes 30 and 1090.
July 2002Flash FloodHendricks-A couple of driveway bridges were washed out along Bear Branch Creek near Kentucky Highway 30 and Kentucky Highway 1090. Also, two feet of water was flowing over Kentucky Highway 30, one mile south of Kentucky Highway 460.
May 2005HailHendricks-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHendricks-no account filed
May 2002HailHendricks-no account filed
June 1998HailHendricks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Fritz1.8 miles13
Gullett2.1 miles13
Craft Fork (historical)2.5 miles13
Crafts Fork2.5 miles13
Lakeville2.6 miles14
Seitz2.8 miles13
Ova3.1 miles13
Stella3.2 miles13

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 HendricksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690587The 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 508222. 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.