Painters Lick, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Painters Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oil Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Painters Lick within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1915 USGS Paintsville quadrangle1:48000
1917 USGS Paintsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Oil Springs quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Oil Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Oil Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

377 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of Painters Lick (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 76 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	143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	112
Arson/incendiarism	76
Recreation and ceremony	31
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FALCON
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKATING RINK HILL
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin 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
Falcon	1.7 miles	15
Conley	2.6 miles	17
Mashfork	2.7 miles	15
Leatha	3.2 miles	15
Wheelersburg	3.4 miles	15
Cyrus	3.7 miles	15
Stringtown	4.4 miles	15
Flat Fork	4.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2339111. 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.