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Lickburg, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville North quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Lickburg within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

356 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Lickburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,709 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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 burning154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism53
Recreation and ceremony49
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
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
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFALCON
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINEFORK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Maggard1.9 miles15
Cyrus2.4 miles15
Stringtown2.8 miles15
Elsie2.9 miles12
Salyersville2.9 miles15
Gifford3.1 miles15
Dixie (historical)3.2 miles14
Plutarch3.2 miles15

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 LickburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6543457The 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 508456. 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.