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Licking River, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle.

Licking River within Morgan 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

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Licking River between 1997 and 2020, burning about 680 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural1

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
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Licking River in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLicking River$4,000Several large limbs down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLicking River$2,000Several large tree limbs down 2 to 3 inches in diameter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLicking River-A tree was blown down near 3000 Liberty Road, northwest of West Liberty.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLicking River-The tops of a pine tree and sycamore tree were broken off.
October 2014HailLicking River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Neal Valley (historical)1.4 miles14
Straight Creek (historical)2.0 miles14
Pomp2.0 miles14
Bear Wallow (historical)2.0 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)2.3 miles14
Liberty Road2.3 miles14
Dehart2.5 miles14
Woodsbend2.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513415. 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.