Mays Lick, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mays Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41055. The Survey maps it on the Mays Lick quadrangle. 252 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
On record in Mays Lick
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 4 records
Mays Lick Consolidated Schoollisted 1982
Poague Houselisted 1987- Springhouse in Mays Licklisted 1987
- Stone Barn on Lee's Creeklisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresMays Lick grew from 242 to 252 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 242 | |
| 2020 | 252 | +10 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Mays Lick quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2020Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mays Lick in 2016, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PLEASANT VALLEY RD. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mays Lick in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $10,000 | The 67 mph gust was measured at the Fleming-Mason County Airport. A barn roof sustained damage and utility poles were also knocked down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $4,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed along Laytham Pike. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down along U.S. 68 near Mays Lick. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down along Weaver Road. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | Several trees and limbs were downed. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Mays Lick | $2,000 | Multiple roads were closed due to heavy rainfall. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $1,000 | Several limbs and small trees were downed. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Mays Lick | $1,000 | A few roads were reported closed due to high water. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Mays Lick | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Flood | Mays Lick | - | High water was reported on State Route 419 and a few other roads across southeast portions of the county. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manley (historical) | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Shannon | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Murphysville | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Helena | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Marshall | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lewisburg | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Weedonia | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sardis | 6.1 miles | 10 |
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 Mays Lick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6007764 | 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 497750. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






