Nicholson, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Piner-Visalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41051. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Nicholson within Kenton County

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.

1950 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Nicholson between 2000 and 2012, burning about 131 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	57 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KLEIN FIRE
3 March 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 October 2012	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RECTOR RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nicholson in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nicholson	$4,000	Multiple trees were reported knocked down.

Every storm recorded in Kenton 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
Bank Lick	1.9 miles	11
White Tower	2.1 miles	11
Atwood	2.3 miles	10
Staffordsburg	2.3 miles	11
Independence	2.6 miles	11
Ricedale	3.2 miles	11
Ryland	4.6 miles	13
Oak Ridge	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499471. 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.