Lucky, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Siler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Deep Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saxton quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Lucky within Whitley 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.

1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Saxton quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Saxton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

267 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Lucky between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,588 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 56 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	144
Arson/incendiarism	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	265 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DINK RIDGE
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 July 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 May 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOFFORD CEM. RD
1 May 2007	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2017	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BETHEL
9 April 2001	Debris and open burning	63 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley 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 Lucky: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Louden Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Whitley 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
Julip	0.5 miles	15
Verne	1.2 miles	15
Yaden	1.6 miles	15
Suttons Mill (historical)	1.6 miles	15
Dal	1.8 miles	15
Louden Coal Camp (historical)	2.5 miles	16
Louden	2.7 miles	16
Dixie	3.1 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 Lucky	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6697797	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 513725. 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.