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Hico, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42036. It stands on Burr Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hico quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Hico within Calloway 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

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hico between 1997 and 2014, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry305 NANNIE NEAL RD.
2 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hico: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Payne ChertSilicaProspect
Jonathan Creek ClayClayProspect
Sugar Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Calloway County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hico in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodHico-Water was over the roadway at Highway 94 East and Highway 497. A co-operative observer in east central Calloway County measured 2.77 inches.

Every storm recorded in Calloway 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
Palestine (historical)0.6 miles13
Liberty (historical)2.0 miles13
Shiloh3.4 miles13
Independence (historical)3.8 miles13
Faxon4.0 miles13
Sugar Creek (historical)4.0 miles13
Temple Hill (historical)4.8 miles12
Lone Oak (historical)5.1 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 HicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690593The 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 508232. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.