Lower Salt Lick, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salt Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40371. It stands on Martins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lower Salt Lick within Bath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Lower Salt Lick (historical) between 1994 and 2016, burning about 589 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PICNIC
22 May 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	NO WAY
9 April 1999	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	GRAVEYARD BRANCH
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLYMPIA LUMBER
21 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	250 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	not named
15 April 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLYMPIA
14 April 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bath County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lower Salt Lick (historical): 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fern Creek Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Horton-North Iron Tract	Iron	Prospect
Horton-South Iron Tract	Iron	Prospect
Indian Creek Iron Track	Iron	Prospect
Rose Run Iron Tract	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Bath 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
Salt Lick	1.5 miles	10
White Sulpher (historical)	2.4 miles	10
Polksville	3.2 miles	10
Midland	3.3 miles	11
Olympia Springs	3.8 miles	10
Clear Creek Furnace	3.8 miles	10
Black Sulpher Spring (historical)	3.8 miles	10
Olympia	4.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416432. 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.