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Boone Furnace, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Carter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It lies near Whitehouse Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Tygarts Valley quadrangle.

Boone Furnace within Carter County

On record in Boone Furnace

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Boone Furnace, Boone Furnace, Carter County, KY
Boone Furnace, Boone Furnace, Carter County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

108 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Boone Furnace between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,139 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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 burning45
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony9

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 May 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Boone Furnace: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brushy Creek ClayClayProspect
Fultz MineClayPast Producer
Gesling Open Pit MineClayPast Producer
Jordan Clay Strip MineClayPast Producer
Messer MineClayProducer
Ramey Zorne Branch MineClayPast Producer
Stafford Hill MineClayPast Producer
Strickland Tract MineClayPast Producer
Wesley Corn MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone Furnace in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2017Flash FloodBoone Furnace$2,300,000Significant flash flooding occurred in multiple spots across the county. Some of the first reports came from Carter Caves State Park where James Branch began flooding after 1.5 inches of rain in just over an hour. At the Carter County Fairgrounds, hundreds of folks were gathered for a music festival, many of whom were camping on the grounds. Barrett Creek, which runs next to the fairgrounds flooded, resulting in 139 campers and/or tow vehicles being damaged or totaled. Water rescues were performed, but fortunately there were no flood related injuries or deaths. Three sheriff cruisers were also totaled by the flood waters. Additional flooding occurred in Grayson and Olive Hill, where multiple houses were flooded. There was also flooding along US Route 60 and at the intersection of State Routes 654 and 854 near the Boyd County line.
June 2017FloodBoone Furnace$100,000Following flash flooding earlier in the day, multiple waterways remained out of their banks into the afternoon. This included Tygarts Creek in Olive Hill and the Little Sandy River around Grayson. Many roads remained closed due to high water. Several homes remained surrounded by water.
December 2019FloodBoone Furnace$10,000Multiple local creeks and streams flooded. Highway 1 was closed near Damron Branch due to flooding along Canoe Run. Williams Creek flooded, causing high water in the Rush area along Route 1654.||The Little Sandy River near Grayson also flooded. The river gage showed the river rising above its 21 foot flood stage very early on the 17th. The river crested around 22.5 feet at 9 o'clock that morning, and returned to its banks that evening. This caused flooding on State Routes 773 and 1919, as well as in the Dixie Park area.
May 1998HailBoone Furnace-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Poplar2.3 miles8
Carter2.6 miles8
Smiths Creek3.4 miles8
Gesling3.4 miles8
Eby4.7 miles8
Rooney5.1 miles8
Wesleyville5.6 miles8
Charlotte Furnace6.1 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 Q19600562The 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 507552. 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.