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Enon, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fredonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42064. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Enon within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Enon between 1999 and 2019, burning about 96 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 902 FIRE
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRESWELL H
7 March 2016Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR WHITE ROAD
24 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2014Recreation and ceremony16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFLAT ROCK
7 February 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDONALDSON CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Enon: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
Tabb Group Fluorspar MinesFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-BariteProducer1903
Vinson DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect1962
Beavers Fluorite ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
S.L.Crook MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell 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
Flat Rock1.9 miles15
Creswell4.3 miles14
Fredonia4.7 miles18
Bakers5.4 miles18
Farmersville5.6 miles15
Rufus5.8 miles15
Hickory Grove5.8 miles18
Livingston (historical)6.2 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on EnonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690362The 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 507943. 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.