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Stricklett, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Laurel-Petersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It stands on Bear Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stricklett quadrangle.

Stricklett within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Stricklett between 1999 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFULLER BRANCH
7 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2020Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 344
28 February 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 February 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP DIX FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stricklett in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStricklett$3,000Four trees were knocked down along State Route 377.
February 2019FloodStricklett-Kinniconick Creek was reported out of its banks.
December 2019FloodStricklett-High water was reported on Holly Branch Road.
December 2019FloodStricklett-Kentucky Route 344 was closed between mile markers 15 and 17 due to flooding.
May 2017Flash FloodStricklett-Four to five feet of water was rushing across Briery Creek Road, stranding two people who had to be rescued.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Kinniconick3.6 miles14
Crum3.8 miles9
Awe4.9 miles8
Glen Springs5.5 miles13
Oak Ridge (historical)5.9 miles9
Upper Indian Creek (historical)6.0 miles9
Petersville6.1 miles9
Charters6.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122567504The 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 515756. 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.