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Slate Lick, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Berea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40403. It lies near Welch Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Slate Lick within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

87 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Slate Lick between 1997 and 2019, burning about 779 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slate Lick in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Flash FloodSlate Lick-Trained spotters reported high water and flash flooding on South Dogwood Drive due to excessive rainfall.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSlate Lick-A public report indicated that severe thunderstorm winds brought down trees at the intersection of Slate Lick Road and Mt Vernon Road.
May 2025HailSlate Lick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Berea1.7 miles18
Blythewood Estates (historical)3.0 miles18
Middletown3.0 miles18
Wallaceton3.1 miles18
Farristown5.3 miles18
Bighill5.5 miles16
Whites5.8 miles17
Bobtown6.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503652. 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.