Forest Hill, Kentucky

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.

• Angles, Thelisted 1976 · 0.7 miles away
• Kenmil Placelisted 2009 · 0.7 miles away
• Anderson-Smith Houselisted 1984 · 0.8 miles away
• Wallace Park Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 2012 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1926 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
• 1929 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hill between 1997 and 2017, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lone Oak
• Hendron
• Langs (historical)
• Highland Church (historical)
• Hovekamp
• Pleasant Grove (historical)

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Forest Hill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in McCracken County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492321. 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.