Shiff, Kentucky

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.

• Fielding Bradford Houselisted 1973 · 1.0 miles away
• Elkwoodlisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1906 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shiff: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Strontium, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Scott County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516993. 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.