Radcliffe, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lexington-Fayette Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40505. The Survey maps it on the Lexington East quadrangle.

Radcliffe within Fayette County

On record in Radcliffe

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Lexington Hospitality Motor Innlisted 2024 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1927 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lexington East quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Lexington East quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Lexington East quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Lexington East quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Radcliffe: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten, Barium-Barite, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Craig Vein	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
Semicon Assoc./ Lexington, Ky.	Tungsten	Producer
Georgetown Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lexington Underground No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elkhorn Parks	0.5 miles	16
Pinehurst	0.7 miles	16
Thoroughbred Acres	0.7 miles	16
Warrenton	0.8 miles	16
Kingston	0.9 miles	16
Northland	1.1 miles	16
Hermitage Hills	1.3 miles	16
Deep Springs	1.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516985. 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.

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.