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White Sulphur, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on White Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crider quadrangle.

White Sulphur within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Sulphur between 1999 and 2019, burning about 41 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
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
24 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEUREKA ROAD
20 March 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of White Sulphur: 9 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Titanium, Silica. 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
Hobby Titanium DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Princeton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect
Tabb Group Fluorspar MinesFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-BariteProducer1903
Bright MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Eddie Crowder MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Gilbert Williamson DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Morgan Heirs Fluorspar TractFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Schwench MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator Main ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator No.1 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell 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
Crider2.0 miles15
Crowtown2.7 miles15
Bethany (historical)3.7 miles15
Princeton4.0 miles15
Dulaney4.0 miles15
Farmersville4.3 miles15
Briarfield (historical)4.8 miles15
Pumpkin Center5.1 miles16

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 Q141478320The 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 509361. 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.