BlockSlickford, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coopersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Dry Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Powersburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1934 USGS Pall Mall quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Powersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
35 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Slickford between 1998 and 2017, burning about 2,027 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DISHMAN MOUNTAIN |
| 9 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slickford in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickford | - | A tree was reported to have been blown down near the Duncan Branch community along Edwards Mountain Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powersburg | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Jimtown | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Low Gap | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Sunnybrook | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hidalgo | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Shearer Valley | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Windy | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Gapcreek | 5.6 miles | 8 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122571970 | 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 509077. 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.