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Stony Point, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Paris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40361. It stands on Green Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austerlitz quadrangle.

Stony Point within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stony Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead. 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
Cassius M. Clay VeinsBarium-Barite, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Bourbon 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
Escondida1.9 miles8
Austerlitz2.4 miles7
Sidville3.5 miles11
Clintonville4.6 miles11
North Middletown4.7 miles5
Paris6.9 miles11
Monterey7.1 miles11
Hutchison7.8 miles11

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 Stony PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197743The 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 509140. 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.