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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.

Utica within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
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
29 September 2010Debris and open burning38 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOUSE
20 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 November 2010Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD TREE
27 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Thunderstorm WindUtica$25,000Half of a roof, including the trusses, were torn off and tossed to the east-northeast.
February 2023Flash FloodUtica$15,000A 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 2016Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000Trees were blown down in the Utica area, blocking roadways.
July 2016LightningUtica$5,000Lightning struck a power pole, which caught fire and fell across a roadway. The roadway was blocked.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000West of Owensboro, a tree fell across Highway 60, blocking it. Power lines were down in Utica.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindUtica$5,000Thunderstorms blew down numerous trees and power lines.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindUtica$3,000Trees were down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindUtica$1,000no account filed
June 2019FloodUtica-Water was over Highway 140 East, just east of Utica.
November 2005Tornado (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 2004Thunderstorm WindUtica-Several trees were down on Highway 140 East.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindUtica-Trees were reported down at Utica.
July 2001FloodUtica-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 1998HailUtica-Dime size hail was reported on U.S. 231 near Kentucky 140.
July 2016HailUtica-no account filed
April 2011HailUtica-no account filed
April 2006HailUtica-no account filed
April 2006HailUtica-no account filed
April 2002HailUtica-no account filed
June 1998HailUtica-no account filed
June 1998HailUtica-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Livia2.2 miles14
Browns Valley2.6 miles17
Hickman (historical)3.3 miles17
Handyville3.8 miles15
Red Hill3.8 miles14
Sutherland4.7 miles17
Crow (historical)4.7 miles15
Maxwell4.9 miles14

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 UticaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7902762The 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.