West Hill, 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 8 records

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

• Jones-Willis Houselisted 1984 · 0.2 miles away
• Edward Yeakel Houselisted 1984 · 0.2 miles away
• Meade County Jaillisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Richardson Houselisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Goff-Baskett Houselisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Meade County Clerk Office-Rankin Houselisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Brandenburg Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Brandenburg Commercial Districtlisted 1986 · 0.2 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.

• 1931 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Mauckport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Mauckport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Mauckport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of West Hill between 2001 and 2012, burning about 37 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eastwood Hills
• Brandenburg
• Brandenburg Station
• Ekron
• Midway
• Rock Haven

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Hill: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Meade 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 2742599. 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.