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Slick Rock, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Glasgow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42141. It stands on Raccoon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiseville quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Slick Rock within Barren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Slick Rock between 1999 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRENSHAW CASSIDY RD. FIRE
9 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryYOUNG ROAD
26 October 2011Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 68-80
15 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry640 TRANSFORMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren 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 Slick Rock: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mc Murtrey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Barren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slick Rock in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 flash 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
July 2024Flash FloodSlick Rock-A car was rescued from flood waters on Lecta Kino Road.

Every storm recorded in Barren 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
Lecta3.1 miles13
Kino4.2 miles10
Coral Hill4.4 miles13
Halfway5.7 miles13
Eighty Eight6.1 miles10
Glasgow6.1 miles10
Hiseville6.6 miles13
Goodnight7.4 miles13

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 Slick RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7540271The 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 509076. 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.