Utica, Kentucky
14 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 42376. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle. 298 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 417 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Utica between 2000 and 2010, burning about 58 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HOUSE |
| 20 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 November 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DEAD TREE |
| 27 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $25,000 | Half of a roof, including the trusses, were torn off and tossed to the east-northeast. |
| February 2023 | Flash Flood | Utica | $15,000 | A water rescue was conducted at an intersection on Highway 140 west of Utica. Two other county roads were reported as impassable. A vehicle was trapped in floodwater at the intersection of two county roads near Masonville. Water was over Kentucky Highway 298 a few miles northwest of Masonville. A trained spotter reported 2.54 inches between midnight and 8 AM on the 16th in the Utica area. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $5,000 | Trees were blown down in the Utica area, blocking roadways. |
| July 2016 | Lightning | Utica | $5,000 | Lightning struck a power pole, which caught fire and fell across a roadway. The roadway was blocked. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $5,000 | West of Owensboro, a tree fell across Highway 60, blocking it. Power lines were down in Utica. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $5,000 | Thunderstorms blew down numerous trees and power lines. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $3,000 | Trees were down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Flood | Utica | - | Water was over Highway 140 East, just east of Utica. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Utica | - | A weak tornado was photographed as it briefly touched down in open fields. No damage was reported. This tornado was spawned by a supercell thunderstorm with a history of long-track tornadoes across western Kentucky, including the Hopkins County F-4 tornado. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Several trees were down on Highway 140 East. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Trees were reported down at Utica. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Utica | - | Torrential rains from slow-moving thunderstorms caused flooding of Kentucky Highway 140 in the 200 block. About two and a half feet of water was over the road, apparently from flooding of Two Mile Creek. |
| September 1998 | Hail | Utica | - | Dime size hail was reported on U.S. 231 near Kentucky 140. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livia | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Browns Valley | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Hickman (historical) | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Handyville | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Red Hill | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Sutherland | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Crow (historical) | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Maxwell | 4.9 miles | 14 |
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 Utica | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7902762 | 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 505928. 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.






