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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.

Mays Lick within Mason County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mays 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.

YearPeople Change
2010242
2020252+10 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

Taken 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.

The restored Rosenwald's Mays Lick Negro School in Mays Lick, a tiny community in Mason County, Kentucky
The restored Rosenwald's Mays Lick Negro School in Mays Lick, a tiny community in Mason County, Kentucky
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional 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 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
3 November 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPLEASANT VALLEY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$10,000The 67 mph gust was measured at the Fleming-Mason County Airport. A barn roof sustained damage and utility poles were also knocked down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$4,000Several trees and power lines were downed along Laytham Pike.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$3,000Trees were knocked down along U.S. 68 near Mays Lick.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$3,000A few trees were knocked down along Weaver Road.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$3,000Several trees and limbs were downed.
April 2011Flash FloodMays Lick$2,000Multiple roads were closed due to heavy rainfall.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$1,000Several limbs and small trees were downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMays Lick$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodMays Lick$1,000A few roads were reported closed due to high water.
May 2009HailMays Lick$1,000no account filed
June 2021FloodMays Lick-High water was reported on State Route 419 and a few other roads across southeast portions of the county.
April 2016HailMays Lick-no account filed
May 2016HailMays Lick-no account filed
March 2002HailMays Lick-no account filed
May 1998HailMays Lick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Manley (historical)3.2 miles10
Shannon3.4 miles10
Murphysville3.7 miles11
Helena3.9 miles8
Marshall4.6 miles11
Lewisburg4.6 miles11
Weedonia4.7 miles8
Sardis6.1 miles10

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 LickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6007764The 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.