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Little Hickman, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Nicholasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40356. The Survey maps it on the Little Hickman quadrangle. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Little Hickman within Jessamine County

On record in Little Hickman

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Little Hickman between 2001 and 2019, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
28 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOM DORMAN
11 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jessamine 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 Little Hickman: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Nelson Stone MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jessamine 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
Pink1.1 miles15
Oak Hill (historical)1.8 miles15
Watts Store (historical)2.6 miles15
Hall2.6 miles15
Sweet Home (historical)2.8 miles10
Pollard3.9 miles15
Hanly4.5 miles15
Vineyard4.9 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 Little HickmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6650324The 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 508478. 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.