BlockLickskillet, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42265. It stands on Vicks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dot quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.
On record in Lickskillet
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Cedar Grove Rosenwald Schoollisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Kentucky Route 5272 Bridge, Spanning Whippoorwill Creek, Lickskilletfederal building survey, 10 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Dot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lickskillet between 2000 and 2007, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 230 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 February 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lickskillet in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lickskillet | - | A tree was blown down by strong winds along Lickskillett Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lickskillet | - | A tree came down along Watermelon Road. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lickskillet | - | There was an area of strong wind behind the line of heaviest convection. Dispatch reported 9 trees were reported down. The trees fell in the southern and northern end of the county. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lickskillet | - | Local law enforcement reported a tree down on James Rose Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Spring | 0.9 miles | 6 | |
| Dripping Spring (historical) | 1.2 miles | 9 | |
| Olmstead | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| Old Volney | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Ferguson | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Parson Campground (historical) | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Mosley Pond | 4.1 miles | 6 | |
| Johnstown (historical) | 4.1 miles | 8 |
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 Lickskillet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6543514 | The 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 508457. 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.