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Renfro Valley, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40456. It stands on Little Renfro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wildie quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Renfro Valley within Rockcastle County

On record in Renfro Valley

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Aunt Polly House, a shop in a c.-1817 cabin that sells arts and crafts in the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, a 90-acre entertainment complex that includes music venues and recording studios focused on classic country, Southern gospel & mountain bluegrass concerts
The Aunt Polly House, a shop in a c.-1817 cabin that sells arts and crafts in the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, a 90-acre entertainment complex that includes music venues and recording studios focused on classic country, Southern gospel & mountain bluegrass concerts
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Water wheel in the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, a 90-acre entertainment complex that includes music venues and recording studios focused on classic country, Southern gospel & mountain bluegrass concerts
Water wheel in the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, a 90-acre entertainment complex that includes music venues and recording studios focused on classic country, Southern gospel & mountain bluegrass concerts
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

133 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Renfro Valley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,967 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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
Debris and open burning51
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHIPPER-O-WILL LANE
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 1999Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Renfro Valley: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Rockcastle-Garrard Shale ExposureClayProspect
Mount Vernon MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mullins MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockcastle 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
Mount Vernon2.5 miles16
Hummel2.5 miles13
Wildie2.9 miles13
Burr3.5 miles16
Orlando3.5 miles16
Roundstone3.6 miles13
Maretburg3.7 miles15
Flat Rock3.7 miles16

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 Renfro ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7313191The 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 514889. 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.