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Mullikin Junction, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42028. The Survey maps it on the Burna quadrangle.

Mullikin Junction 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mullikin Junction between 1999 and 2016, burning about 362 acres in total. None 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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 1999Misuse of fire by a minor16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Mullikin Junction: 9 prospects, 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Dyers Hill Fluorspar DepositsFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Germanium, GalliumPast Producer1950, 1956
Jesse Walker ProspectClayProspect
Lasher ProjectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect1970
Smithland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hutson Zinc MineZincPast Producer
Larkin Croft ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect
B.S.Watson ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Cullen No2Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1968
Dyers Hill MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1955
Eagle-Butlar MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

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
Burna2.3 miles19
Lemen Landing2.5 miles19
Vicksburg2.8 miles19
Moxley Landing2.9 miles19
Mitchell Landing3.5 miles19
Miller Landing4.1 miles21
Hampton4.6 miles21
Salem5.1 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 Q122598095The 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 508659. 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.