College Heights, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Oxier Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville South quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

College Heights within Magoffin County

On record in College 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 3 records

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

Salyersville Banklisted 1997 · 0.9 miles away
Judge D. W. Gardner Houselisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
Gardner Farmsteadlisted 2015 · 0.8 miles away

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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Salyersville South quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Salyersville South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

372 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of College Heights (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,163 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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 burning	157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90
Recreation and ceremony	60
Arson/incendiarism	48
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FALCON
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JIM ARNETT BRANCH
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKAGGS
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DANNY BLANTON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin 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 College Heights (historical): 1 prospect. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Burning Fork Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Magoffin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dixie (historical)	0.6 miles	14
Salyersville	0.9 miles	15
Lakeville	1.5 miles	14
Mason	1.7 miles	14
Stringtown	2.1 miles	15
Burning Fork	2.5 miles	14
Gifford	3.0 miles	15
Gullett	3.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2339014. 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.