BlockPiqua, Kentucky
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Olivet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41064. It stands on Bee Lick. The Survey maps it on the Piqua quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Piqua between 1999 and 2009, burning about 58 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 February 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piqua in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2000 | Flash Flood | Piqua | $15,000 | Many hours of heavy rainfall caused the closing of State Route 168. Also, rising water forced the evacuation of a retirement home. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Piqua | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Piqua | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Piqua | $2,000 | A creek overflowed and covered parts of the road due to heavy rainfall. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Piqua | - | State Route 617 was closed due to high water. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Piqua | - | Piqua Kentontown Road was underwater due to Johnson Creek overflowing. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Piqua | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant (historical) | 2.3 miles | 5 | |
| Kentontown | 4.3 miles | 5 | |
| Ogden Ridge (historical) | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Olivet | 4.5 miles | 6 | |
| Five Lick Creek (historical) | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Alhambra | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Brierly Ridge (historical) | 7.0 miles | 6 | |
| Linville (historical) | 7.2 miles | 6 |
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 Piqua | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7197525 | The 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 508828. 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.