Highland Park, 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 4 records

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

• Dr. Ancil Gatliff Houselisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away
• Lane Theaterlisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away
• Williamsburg Armorylisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
• L&N Railroad Depotlisted 2019 · 0.6 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.

• 1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1952 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,639 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 44 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:

• Williamsburg
• Bon
• Balltown
• Emlyn
• Savoy
• Jellico Creek

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Highland Park: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Whitley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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 512697. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.