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Baughman Heights, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Danville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40422. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle.

Baughman Heights within Boyle County

On record in Baughman Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 17 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Boyle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Baughman Heights in 1998, burning about 30 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
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
29 November 1998Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Baughman Heights: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Danville MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hayden VeinBarium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Sphalerite
Sandidge VeinsBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite

Every working recorded in Boyle 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
Hilldale (historical)0.8 miles14
Danville0.9 miles14
Beverly Hills1.1 miles14
West Danville1.3 miles14
Green Acres1.7 miles14
Indian Hills (historical)1.8 miles14
Caldwell Manor1.9 miles14
Daugherty Station (historical)2.2 miles13

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 Q122593157The 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 486479. 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.