High Point, Kentucky

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 37 fires within 5 miles of High Point between 1997 and 2016, burning about 418 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:

• Chiles
• Maxon
• Maxon Crossing
• Palestine (historical)
• West Paducah
• Grahamville

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of High Point: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 494186. 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.