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Rock Lick, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Taulbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41385. It stands on Rock Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the Lee City quadrangle.

Rock Lick within Breathitt 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Rock Lick between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,312 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony6

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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt 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
Taulbee1.2 miles11
Moct1.9 miles11
Mountain Valley2.4 miles11
Simpson3.3 miles11
Bays3.5 miles13
Keck4.1 miles14
Sewell4.5 miles13
Paxton5.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508953. 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.