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Mining City, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morgantown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It stands on Persimmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Hill quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Mining City within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mining City between 2000 and 2010, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 August 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 November 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mining City: 1 plant. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gary Bros. No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mining City in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMining City-Trees and power lines were downed on Provo Road by thunderstorm winds.
May 2024HailMining City-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Morgantown at the intersection of Provo Road and Meredith Road.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Provo2.7 miles11
Dunbar2.9 miles11
South Hill3.8 miles11
Logansport4.0 miles12
Youngtown4.5 miles14
Stringtown (historical)4.9 miles11
Morgantown5.1 miles14
Eden5.2 miles12

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 Mining CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690958The 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 508615. 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.