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Mitchell Landing, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Smithland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42081. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burna quadrangle.

Mitchell Landing within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell Landing between 2002 and 2016, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCOTTS CHAPEL RD.
19 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryEVELYN RD
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAULKNER LANE FIRE
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mitchell Landing: 9 past producers, 6 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, 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
Jesse Walker ProspectClayProspect
Mineral Ridge - Claylick Fluorspar MinesFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadProducer1870
Hutson Zinc MineZincPast Producer
Larkin Croft ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect
Billy Owl MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Cullen No2Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1968
Eagle-Butlar MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Green MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Klondike MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1950
Lewis ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect

Every working recorded in Livingston 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
Moxley Landing0.9 miles19
Vicksburg2.3 miles19
Tiline2.5 miles18
Pinckneyville2.6 miles18
Lemen Landing3.2 miles19
Mullikin Junction3.5 miles19
Heater3.9 miles19
Miller Landing4.8 miles21

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 Q122597832The 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 508619. 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.