Log Lick, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Log Lick within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Log Lick between 1997 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED BIRD LANE
4 April 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHILDERS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Pine Ridge (historical)	1.1 miles	15
Vianna	1.6 miles	15
Mina	2.2 miles	15
Epperson (historical)	2.2 miles	15
Trapp	2.3 miles	15
Snowden (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Rightangle	2.5 miles	15
Midway (historical)	2.5 miles	15

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 Log Lick	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666821	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 508490. 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.