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Wolf Lick, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lewisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. It stands on Alum Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunmor quadrangle. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Wolf Lick within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Lick between 1997 and 2016, burning about 109 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 ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wolf Lick: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Frazier Hollow ProspectBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Lick in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindWolf Lick-A tree was blown down by Beechland Road.
April 2011FloodWolf Lick-Kentucky 3201, Quality Rd., was closed between mile markers 0 and 1. Kentucky 107, Deerlick Rd., was closed between mile markers 4 and 5.
December 2007FloodWolf Lick-Parts of Kentucky Route 1153 were closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Diamond Springs1.6 miles11
Jerico1.9 miles8
Lewisburg2.3 miles8
Pogue (historical)2.7 miles11
Beechland2.8 miles11
Henrysville (historical)3.0 miles8
Hollow Bill3.1 miles11
Stewarts Ridge (historical)3.7 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q8029863The 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 509397. 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.