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Pinckneyville, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42078. It stands on Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dycusburg quadrangle.

Pinckneyville within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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 Pinckneyville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 163 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 ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryEVELYN RD
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROWNS MI
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROWNS MINE RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Pinckneyville: 12 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Hutson Zinc MineZincPast Producer
Jesse Walker ProspectClayProspect
Mineral Ridge - Claylick Fluorspar MinesFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadProducer1870
Yandell MinesCobalt, Diatomite, Manganese, Nickel, ZincPast Producer1902
Bennett-ShelbyFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1900, 1926
Billy Owl MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Cullen MineFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerUnderground
Cullen No2Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1968
Eagle-Butlar MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Eagle-CullenFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1899

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinckneyville in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2016Flash FloodPinckneyville$40,000A house in Smithland was evacuated by emergency personnel due to flooding. Floodwaters surrounded a house in Ledbetter. Between Ledbetter and Smithland, Kentucky Highway 937 was washed out. Highway 2232 in the Tiline area was underwater.

Every storm 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
Tiline1.0 miles18
Mitchell Landing2.6 miles19
Moxley Landing3.5 miles19
Vicksburg4.9 miles19
Mullikin Junction5.3 miles19
Salem5.3 miles21
Lemen Landing5.8 miles19
Heater5.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500661. 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.