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Boone Heights, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40906. It stands on Hanson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Artemus quadrangle.

Boone Heights within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

309 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Boone Heights between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,050 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 63 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 burning159
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Recreation and ceremony28
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN LAKE
23 June 2012Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULL RUN F
16 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox 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 Boone Heights: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Barbourville ShaleClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Barbourville1.4 miles17
Apple Grove (historical)1.5 miles17
Davis Bend (historical)1.9 miles17
Heidrick2.0 miles18
Artemus2.0 miles17
Bimble2.4 miles16
Providence2.5 miles17
Swanpond2.5 miles17

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 Q122557634The 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 487694. 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.