Mineral and Fuel Resources Map of Kentucky

Warren H. Anderson and Garland R. Dever, 1998

$10.00

This is a 1:500,000-scale map of Kentucky showing major occurrences of mineral resources such as limestone, dolomite, fluorite, sand and gravel, and clay. It also shows major producing areas of coal, oil, and gas, as well as the locations of many mines and quarries, mineral occurrences, gas-storage fields, and tar-sand resource areas. The ink jet plotted paper map is 36” x 57”.

To view a small, easy to download (file size 300 kb) sample of this map showing a portion of the state, click on min-samp.pdf.

To view the entire map (file size 2 Mb), click on Minmap.pdf.

1:500,000-Scale Map of Kentucky

Compiled by Terry Hounshell

Sold on CD only. $30.00

This map consists of a series of digital files that can be useful to anyone using ArcView, AutoCad Release 14, or MacroMedia Freehand. For section below for more information. To view a small, easy to download (file size 273kb) sample of this map showing a portion of the state, click on kymap-samp.pdf. To view the entire map (file size 1.1 Mb), click on kymap.pdf.

More Detailed Information

The digital files on this CD were created in AutoCAD at the Kentucky Geological Survey. They are being released for public distribution as Kentucky Geological Survey open-file report OF-99-01. The files can be imported into ARC/INFO, ArcView, MacroMedia FreeHand, and possibly some other software packages. The files can also be useful in GIS applications as a base map for plotting purposes as a substitute for a larger scale base map that would be too detailed to plot effectively at 1:500,000 or smaller scales. The files are separated into three subdirectories: Acad-14, Dd-shapes, and Dxfmaps. The files in Acad-14 are AutoCad Release 14 files (North American Datum of 1927, Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, standard parallels 33° and 45°). The files in Dd-shapes are all shape files in decimal degrees, North American Datum of 1983. The files in Dxfmaps are all AutoCad DXF files, Release 12, and are in paper inches. Text included in some of the DWG and DXF files is not included in the shape files, even as block attributes. This digital publication is a work in progress. More files are likely to be offered in future revisions.

The state and county boundaries were digitized in AutoCAD from a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 1:500,000-scale, stable-base Mylar map. Most of the other files were digitized at 1:500,000 scale also. Thus, these files are best used and plotted at 1:500,000 or smaller scales. The following is a brief description of each file:

• Basemap
• State and county boundaries
• Rivers.--Major rivers, digitized at 1:1,000,000 scale from Mylar maps photographically reduced from USGS. 1:500,000-scale maps, were used for this series. Rivers that are state or county boundaries were modified to closely fit the state or county boundaries that were digitized from the USGS 1:500,000-scale,
• stable-base Mylar map.
• Creeks.--Major creeks, digitized at 1:1,000,000 scale from Mylar maps photographically reduced from USGS 1:500,000-scale maps, were used on this map. Creeks that are county boundaries were modified to closely fit the county boundaries that were digitized from the USGS 1:500,000-scale, stable-base Mylar map.
• Text (not included as a shape file).--Scale bar, county names, etc.
• Latlong.--Latitude and longitude lines (1 degree).
• Intstate.--Interstate highways and parkways, with no annotation. Some state and U.S. highways in the eastern portion of Kentucky have been included to link the parkways. Major towns, usually county seats, are included in the DXF and DWG files.
• Faults.--This coverage of faults is from the digital 1:500,000-scale geologic map of Kentucky (Noger, 1988). Raster files produced from scanned Mylar maps of scribed faults were autovectorized. The vectorization process displaced parts of the faults, and added unnecessary short lines in places. In AutoCAD, the file was calibrated to a USGS Mylar map, and the faults were manually smoothed and rectified close to their original positions. The following is an explanation of layers in Faults.dxf and Faults.dwg:
  1. Faults: faults
  2. Faults2: concealed or inferred faults
  3. Fltsym: sawteeth symbols for the Pine Mountain Overthrust Fault
  4. Flttext: text
• H-basins.--Hydrologic basins were digitized from a printed USGS map (Hydrologic Unit Map—1974, State of Kentucky, no author). This map was placed under a stable-base, Mylar base map and shifted as needed to fit the Mylar map. The following is an explanation of the layers in H-basins.dxf and H-basins.dwg:
  1. Cc-txt: political subdivision code
  2. Hydr-ab: accounting unit boundary
  3. Hydr-cb: cataloging unit boundary
  4. Hydr-rb: regional boundary
  5. Hydr-sb: subregional boundary
  6. Txhy: hydrologic unit code