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Whitehouse, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the McDonough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30252. It stands on Coker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle.

Whitehouse within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Whitehouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 489 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning89
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ROCKDALE001
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HENRY-006
17 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HENRY-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitehouse: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maddox MineMicaPast Producer
Stockbridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Walker PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehouse in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse$15,000A reported was received on social media of a tree blown down onto a house causing minor damage to the roof about a half mile southeast of the intersection of Highway 138 and Highway 155.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse$13,000The Henry County Emergency Manager reported that 40 to 50 trees were blown down east of Stockbridge. Large oak trees were snapped at the intersection of Highway 155 and Kelleytown Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse$4,000The Henry County Emergency Management Director reported that 10 Poplar Trees were down in the Pebble Brook Subdivision east of Stockbridge near the Rockdale county line.

Every storm recorded in Henry County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Millers Mill0.6 miles18
Brannan2.6 miles18
Kelleytown2.6 miles18
Brownwood2.7 miles18
Woodhaven Estates2.8 miles18
Highland Village3.0 miles18
Pine Valley Estates3.1 miles18
Brownwood Acres3.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333416. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.