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Locations of Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites in the U.S.

► THE STATE OF KENTUCKY 

Introduction: 

            Eastern Kentucky was possessed of some of the finest gas and coking coals in the country, marked with the Elkhorn Coal as its finest. With arrival of rail and steam-powered excavators, around 1879, the existing coal mining industry took on side-hill strip mining. About 8 percent of the mines in the districts of coking coal also added beehive plants and, with 1915 moved strongly into by-product coking facilities, mainly led by the Solvay Corporation and nearly all located in the southeastern coal fields. Western Kentucky coal was welcomed everywhere but did not have the high-volatile nature of the eastern varieties. Jillson (1924) is a fine reference to the locations of coke plants, as well as some analyses of the superb Elkhorn Gas Coal.

Click the blue "EPA" link below to view the Kentucky map of the EPA 1985 Radian FMGP Report.	Click the green "Hatheway" link below to view the Kentucky map of Professor Hatheway's research.