BlockHickory Corner, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Short Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It lies near Bugger Hill. The Survey maps it on the Falls of Rough quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1932 USGS Fordsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Falls Of Rough quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Falls of Rough quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Corner between 1999 and 2017, burning about 93 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TICK RIDGE |
| 30 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BLAINE HILL |
| 25 September 1999 | Smoking | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE |
| 6 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RAINBOW LANE |
| 28 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Corner in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Hickory Corner | - | This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. This is the fifth of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado travelled another 1 mile to 1.5 miles to a large boat storage facility on the Falls of Rough Road. The boat facility was heavily damaged due to winds easily tearing apart open boat storage structures. Large debris from these structures was scattered 300 yards across Falls of Rough Road and a runway. Power lines were also taken down along Falls of Rough Road. Damage ended just shy of the Rough River Dam Resort State Park on the western Banks of Rough River Lake. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Hickory Corner | - | Several roads were under water. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falling Branch | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Fentress McMahan | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Concord | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hites Falls | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Valley | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Tousey | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Short Creek | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Yeaman | 5.3 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508228. 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.