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Vicco, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Defiance-Vicco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41773. It stands on Montgomery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. 327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Vicco within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Vicco fell from 334 to 327 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010334
2020327-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

423 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Vicco between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,832 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 78 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 burning188
Missing data/not specified/undetermined120
Arson/incendiarism78
Recreation and ceremony29
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJEFF
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vicco in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindVicco$50,000A tree fell on a house, and several other trees were down in the area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindVicco$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Vicco.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindVicco$10,000Numerous trees were down. There were widespread power outages through the area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindVicco$5,000A few trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindVicco$5,000Several trees and power lines down.
August 2014Flash FloodVicco$1,000A portion of Georges Branch Rd washed out.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindVicco-A tree was reported to have been blown down onto the railroad tracks in Vicco.
February 2019FloodVicco-A local media affiliate reported water over the road, forcing the closure of one lane of Kentucky Highway 15 between Vicco and Sassafras.
May 2004Flash FloodVicco-Highway 1096 was closed due to flash flooding along with numerous side roads in the Vicco and Lotts Creek area.
February 2003Flash FloodVicco-One foot of water was flowing over Acup Road off of Highway 15.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindVicco-Trees and power lines were down.
August 2005HailVicco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Allock1.1 miles16
Scuddy1.4 miles16
Kodak1.8 miles16
Defiance1.8 miles16
Happy2.0 miles16
Acup (historical)2.3 miles16
Big Branch (historical)3.1 miles16
Fusonia3.3 miles16

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 ViccoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2613050The 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 506035. 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.