Headquarters, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40311. The Survey maps it on the Carlisle quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Headquarters within Nicholas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Headquarters between 1999 and 2009, burning about 17 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 February 2009	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicholas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Headquarters: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Caldwell Veins	Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
	Nicholas County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Nicholas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hooktown	2.0 miles	6
Barterville	2.8 miles	5
Morning Glory	3.4 miles	6
Barefoot	4.5 miles	5
Hickory Ridge (historical)	5.0 miles	6
Ellisville	5.4 miles	5
Carlisle	5.6 miles	6
Myers	8.6 miles	7

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 Headquarters	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5689884	The 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 493975. 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.