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Slabtown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pleasureville census division. It stands on Joes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Franklinton quadrangle.

Slabtown within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Slabtown between 1997 and 2005, burning about 30 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 February 2001Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Slabtown: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, 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
Lockport Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gratz MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer1904
K.T.Dome MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Lockport MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Twin Valley Mine & MillBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPlant

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slabtown in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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
April 2017HailSlabtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Lockport2.0 miles12
Sixmile (historical)2.7 miles9
Franklinton3.0 miles9
Fallis3.7 miles12
Saltwater (historical)4.0 miles9
Bethlehem4.1 miles9
Adamsville (historical)4.3 miles13
Orville5.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509073. 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.