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Pink, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Nicholasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40356. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Little Hickman quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Pink within Jessamine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pink in 2019, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOM DORMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jessamine 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 Pink: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
Ambrose Fault VeinFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pink in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
December 2015FloodPink$10,000The public reported to the NWS that heavy rain flooded portions of Brumfield Lane and Little Hickman Road.

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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
Little Hickman1.1 miles15
Watts Store (historical)2.2 miles15
Pollard2.9 miles15
Oak Hill (historical)2.9 miles15
Hall3.5 miles15
Sweet Home (historical)3.8 miles10
Mount Lebanon4.1 miles15
Hanly4.5 miles15

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 PinkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195928The 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 508827. 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.