White Chapel, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alvaton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42104. It stands on West Fork Drakes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

White Chapel within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of White Chapel (historical) between 1999 and 2012, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILL PAYNE
26 October 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Drake	1.0 miles	14
Old Union (historical)	2.0 miles	14
Boyce	2.1 miles	14
Matlock	2.7 miles	14
Plano	4.0 miles	16
Alvaton	4.9 miles	13
Old Trinity (historical)	5.0 miles	16
Woodburn	6.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742815. 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.