Jessamine, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Wilmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40390. It stands on Town Fork. The Survey maps it on the Nicholasville quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Jessamine within Jessamine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Nicholasville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Nicholasville quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Nicholasville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

3 photographs,

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.

Camp Nelson National Cemetery, 6980 Danville Road, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

J. Burdine Building, 200 East Maple Street, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

High Bridge, 4 miles Southwest of Wilmore, High Bridge, Jessamine County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

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 Jessamine: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Lexington Quarry Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc	Producer
	Miss Kate	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc	Plant

Every working recorded in Jessamine 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
Oakdale (historical)	0.8 miles	12
Wilmore Park (historical)	1.5 miles	15
Lexington Park (historical)	1.5 miles	15
Chattersville (historical)	2.1 miles	15
Edgewood (historical)	2.2 miles	15
Cobbs Service Station (historical)	2.2 miles	15
Wilmore	2.3 miles	12
Nicholasville	2.6 miles	15

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 Jessamine	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6186053	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 508341. 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.

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.