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Vicksburg, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Smithland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42083. It lies near Haw Hill. The Survey maps it on the Burna quadrangle.

Vicksburg within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Vicksburg between 1999 and 2016, burning about 136 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony3
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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCOTTS CHAPEL RD.
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryEVELYN RD
4 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAULKNER LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Vicksburg: 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dyers Hill Fluorspar DepositsFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Germanium, GalliumPast Producer1950, 1956
Hutson Zinc MineZincPast Producer
Jesse Walker ProspectClayProspect
Larkin Croft ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect
Smithland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Smithland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Valley Divide Clay BedClayProspect
Dyers Hill MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1955
Klondike MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1950
Royal MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vicksburg in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Vicksburg$20,000Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped along the three-quarter mile path. The tornado was in a very rural area about four miles northeast of Smithland. Peak winds were estimated near 110 mph.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindVicksburg$8,000A house trailer was damaged between Smithland and Tiline. The residents were evacuated. An attached shed was torn off.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Lemen Landing1.0 miles19
Moxley Landing1.4 miles19
Mitchell Landing2.3 miles19
Miller Landing2.5 miles21
Mullikin Junction2.8 miles19
Heater3.3 miles19
Burna4.4 miles19
Tiline4.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509286. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.