BlockUpper Blue Licks, Kentucky
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40350. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sherburne quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1952 USGS Sherburne quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Upper Blue Licks between 1999 and 2017, burning about 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 17 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BRIAR PATCH RD. |
| 8 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KISER BRANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milltown | 0.6 miles | 6 | |
| Sprout | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Myers | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Moorefield | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Weston | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Hickory Ridge (historical) | 8.8 miles | 6 | |
| East Union | 9.1 miles | 6 |
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 Upper Blue Licks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7898500 | 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 509264. 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.