Gaffey Heights, 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 1 record

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

• Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentuckylisted 1988 · 0.2 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.

• 1936 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:25000
• 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Gaffey Heights between 2004 and 2010, burning about 10 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.

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:

• Dietz Acres
• Prichard Place
• Radcliff
• Red Hill
• Rose Terrace
• Vine Grove

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gaffey Heights: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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.

Every working recorded in Hardin County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492647. 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.