Lickskillet, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brandenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40108. The Survey maps it on the Rock Haven quadrangle.

Lickskillet within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lickskillet between 2004 and 2014, burning about 107 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lickskillet: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	No. 4 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Meade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rock Haven	0.9 miles	16
Hughes Landing	2.6 miles	16
Grahamton	2.7 miles	16
Muldraugh	3.5 miles	14
Doe Valley	3.5 miles	16
Johnstown (historical)	3.7 miles	14
Garrett	3.9 miles	16
Buck Grove	3.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508458. 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.