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Big Sandy Junction, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Big Sandy River. The Survey maps it on the Catlettsburg quadrangle.

Big Sandy Junction within Boyd County

On record in Big Sandy Junction

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Big Sandy Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWAYNE AVE.
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELIZABETH COURT
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT 75 AND RT 52 INTERSECTION
26 June 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8485
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK HAVEN
1 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBIG SANDY RIVER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Big Sandy Junction: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Armco Steel/ Ashland, Ky.IronUnknown
Ashland Oil/ Catlettsburg, Ky.SulfurUnknown
Clinton Shale MineClayPast Producer
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boyd 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
Catlettsburg0.8 miles23
Riggs Tract (historical)0.9 miles23
Oakland Addition (historical)1.4 miles23
Normal2.0 miles23
Cliffside (historical)2.7 miles23
Chadwick Creek (historical)3.6 miles22
Geigers Crossing (historical)3.7 miles22
Ashland4.8 miles22

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 Q122593055The 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 487248. 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.