Saline Island

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Ohio R. mi. 865-67;Illinois side, Saline Mines
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. site
Also known as. Caught in the Middle: The Civil War on the Lower Ohio River MPS
Census division. Morganfield
National Register reference number. 98001291 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saline Island between 1994 and 2019, burning about 98 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEKOVEN ROAD
3 April 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	TUCKER HILL
17 April 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	PENNELL
28 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 1995	Debris and open burning	42 acres	Shawnee National Forest	MINERVA
24 February 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Shawnee National Forest	JOINER
18 February 2017	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 1508
16 February 1994	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Shawnee National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Saline Island: 17 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Annabell Lee	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Cadmium, Silver	Producer
Caseyville-Dekoven Road Outcrop	Silica	Prospect
Denny & Simpson Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Denton Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Denton Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1981
East Green Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
M.F. Oxford No. 7	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Underground
Minerva No. 1 Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Germanium, Lead, Silver, Gallium, Cadmium, Barium-Barite	Producer
Union Sand Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
West Green Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001291 in Record Group 79.
Union County	All 7 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.