Mining City is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Butler County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States. It was also known as Bank Yard and Suffock.

Geography

The community is located along Kentucky Route 1117 in west-central Butler County, which is part of Kentucky's

Western Coal Fields The West Kentucky Coal Field, alternatively The North Pennyrile or simply Northwest Kentucky, comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the O ...

region. The community is one of the region 's several communities located along the Green River.

References

Unincorporated communities in Butler County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{ButlerCountyKY-geo-stub