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Lackey, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41630. It stands on Stonecoal Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Lackey within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

269 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Lackey between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,235 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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 burning124
Arson/incendiarism54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Recreation and ceremony38
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTERRY FORK
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lackey in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2025HailLackey-A person in the Lackey community posted a picture of hail around the size of a quarter.
March 2021FloodLackey-KY-7 is blocked in several spots near the Lackey and Wayland communities due to high water over the road.
June 2010Flash FloodLackey-There was water covering half of Route 7 near Punkin Center in Estill.
May 2010Flash FloodLackey-Kentucky Route 550 near the Knott county line was reported by the Kentucky State Police to have been submerged beneath flood water south of Garrett.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Porter Junction0.3 miles17
Garrett0.8 miles17
Estill0.9 miles17
West Garrett1.2 miles17
Welco Station1.3 miles17
Glo1.8 miles17
Hueysville (historical)2.0 miles17
Wayland2.0 miles17

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 LackeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154160The 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 495888. 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.