Tuck, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. It stands on Rhodes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panther quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Tuck within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

8 of 21 photographs shown, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Owensboro Bridge, a continuous truss span over the Ohio River, connects Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city, with rural south-central Indiana
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

The homemade dessert section of the Moonlite Bar-b-q Inn, a popular barbecue restaurant in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Entrance to the Daviess County Library in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Instruments displayed at the Kentucky Bluegrass Museum in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Just a portion of the legendary Bourbon Bar at the Miller House restaurant and lounge, located in a mansion built in 1905 in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

The lower reaches of a 250- to 300-year-old sassafras tree, said locally to, probably be, at more than 100 feet tall, the world's tallest tree of that species, which stands quite tall in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

The Kentucky Bluegrass Museum in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Display outside the Moonlite Bar-b-q Inn, a popular barbecue restaurant in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Daviess County

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Tuck between 2001 and 2009, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
7 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 February 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pettit	1.2 miles	15
Crow (historical)	1.5 miles	15
Sutherland	1.9 miles	17
Moseleyville	2.5 miles	15
Twin Lakes	2.5 miles	15
Hickman (historical)	2.9 miles	17
Rome	3.1 miles	15
Snyder	3.3 miles	15

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 Tuck	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7851001	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 509240. 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.