Hylton, 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.

• 1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1912 USGS Pound quadrangle1:48000
• 1912 USGS Pound quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Pound quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Jenkins East quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Jenkins East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Jenkins East quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Hylton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 13,938 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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:

• Dorton
• Elimer
• Allegheny (historical)
• Hellier
• Ashcamp
• Big Branch

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hylton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Pike 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 508303. 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.