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Wolf River Dock, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Wolf River Dock within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Wolf River Dock between 1999 and 2017, burning about 184 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
20 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAY FIRE
30 April 2007Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2010Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGOODMAN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wolf River Dock: 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Pickett Co. Hwy. Dept. Pit No. 164Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducer1933
Pickett County Highway Dept. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Lee Chapel (historical)1.8 miles12
Lettered Oak (historical)2.3 miles12
Shipley2.9 miles12
Willen (historical)3.3 miles12
Huntersville3.9 miles12
Ewing (historical)4.5 miles12
Churntop (historical)4.6 miles12
Dicken (historical)4.9 miles12

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 Q122597696The 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 507028. 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.