Olive Hill Fire Clay District

Unknown in Carter county in Kentucky, United States with commodity Fire Clay (Refractory)
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Bibliographic references
  9. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400325
Record type District
Current site name Olive Hill Fire Clay District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.03333, 38.31667 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carter(county)

Kentucky(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grahn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Morehead(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Huntington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Sandy(hydrologic unit)

Middle Ohio-Raccoon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Ohio(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Kentucky Carter
United States Kentucky Elliott
United States Kentucky Rowan
United States Kentucky Greenup
United States Kentucky Lewis
United States Kentucky Morgan

Comments on the location information

  • Carter County is the geographic center of the district which also includes parts of Elliott, Rowan, Greenup, Lewis, and Morgan Counties.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fire Clay (Refractory) Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.03333, 38.31667

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Non-metallic

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    U.S. BuMines I.C. 8335, 1967, p. 69.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 23-NOV-2009 Illo, Diane R. Contractor

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.