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White Mills Junction, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Summit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42732. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle.

White Mills Junction within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of White Mills Junction between 1999 and 2013, burning about 286 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1999Smoking201 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEASTVIEW BARRENS FIRE
9 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 February 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of White Mills Junction: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Big Clifty Sandstone ExposureSilicaProspect
Eastview Abandoned Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Railroad Overpass Sandstone OutcropSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Hardin 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
Eastview1.3 miles18
White Mills1.5 miles18
Harcourt1.9 miles18
Summit2.5 miles18
Old Stephensburg2.7 miles18
Star Mills3.3 miles14
Stephensburg3.4 miles18
Hansbrough4.5 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122572875The 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 509357. 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.