Geigers Crossing, 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 3 records

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

• Ashland Armorylisted 2002 · 0.3 miles away
• Lon Rogers Houselisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away
• Indian Mounds in Central Parklisted 1974 · 0.8 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.

• 1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
• 1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Geigers Crossing (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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.

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:

• Cliffside (historical)
• Normal
• Ashland
• Big Sandy Junction
• Catlettsburg
• Oakland Addition (historical)

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Geigers Crossing (historical): 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Sulfur. 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 Boyd 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 2088689. 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.