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Patrick, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Clifford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Burgess Branch. The Survey maps it on the Richardson quadrangle.

Patrick within Lawrence 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.

Fires near this place

300 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Patrick between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,874 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 98 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 burning101
Arson/incendiarism98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Recreation and ceremony28
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
6 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEACH ORCHARD
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2010Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINEY POINT FARM
22 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Patrick: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Joe FanninSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patrick in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
March 2015FloodPatrick$10,000Creeks overflowed and blocked roads. A few examples, included Georges Creek and Nats Creek.
April 2014HailPatrick$5,000Irregular shaped hail fell briefly over Nats Creek. It was about 3 inches long, but only about 1.25 inches wide.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPatrick$1,000A few trees fell along Routes 1690 and 2037.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Richardson1.4 miles17
Brows Defeat (historical)1.9 miles17
Ray (historical)1.9 miles17
Peach Orchard2.0 miles17
Ulysses2.2 miles17
Lost Creek (historical)2.4 miles17
Ben Bow3.2 miles17
Georges Creek3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508780. 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.

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.