Grahamton, Kentucky

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Textile Mill & Storage Warehouse, U.S. Route 60, Grahamtonfederal building survey, 16 photographs

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.

• 1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000
• 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Rock Haven quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Grahamton between 2004 and 2019, burning about 54 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:

• Garrett
• Hog Wallow
• Johnstown (historical)
• Lickskillet
• Rock Haven
• Buck Grove

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grahamton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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 Meade 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 508117. 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.