Mammoth Cave, 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 12 of 15 shown

• Bransford Spring Pumphouselisted 1991
• Colossal Cavern Entrancelisted 1991
• Crystal Cave Districtlisted 1991
• Good Spring Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 1991
• Great Onyx Cave Entrancelisted 1991
• Hercules and Coach No. 2listed 1975
• Joppa Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 1991
• Maintenance Area Districtlisted 1991
• Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 1991
• Mammoth Cave Historic Districtlisted 1991
• Old Guide Cemeterylisted 1991
• Residential Area Districtlisted 1991

Every listing in Edmonson County

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Mammoth Cave National Park, Visitor Center, Mammoth Cavefederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Mammoth Cave Saltpeter Works, Mammoth Cavefederal building survey, 20 photographs

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.

• 1922 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1923 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Mammoth Cave between 1993 and 2017, burning about 169 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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:

• Chaumont
• Elko
• Sloans Crossing
• Union City
• Cedar Spring
• Pig

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth Cave in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Edmonson 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 508529. 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.

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.