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Shawneetown, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lexington-Fayette Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40503. The Survey maps it on the Lexington West quadrangle.

Shawneetown within Fayette County

On record in Shawneetown

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shawneetown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten. 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
Lexington Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Semicon Assoc./ Lexington, Ky.TungstenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Crestwood0.6 miles15
Montclair0.7 miles16
Deerfield0.8 miles15
Shadeland0.8 miles16
Zandale0.9 miles15
Mount Vernon0.9 miles16
Hinda Heights0.9 miles15
Hollywood1.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503296. 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.