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Kenawood, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lexington-Fayette Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40505. The Survey maps it on the Lexington East quadrangle.

Kenawood within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kenawood: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten, Barium-Barite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Craig VeinBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Lexington Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Semicon Assoc./ Lexington, Ky.TungstenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hi-Acres0.3 miles16
Rockwood0.3 miles16
Deep Springs0.5 miles16
Hermitage Hills0.6 miles16
Lexington-Fayette0.7 miles16
Dixie Plantation0.7 miles16
Eastland Park0.9 miles16
Eastland0.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122590691The 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 495639. 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.