White Oak, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40489. It stands on Butt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

White Oak within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of White Oak (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 144 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 May 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TROY ADAMS
12 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2010	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 March 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Walnut Grove (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Diamond (historical)	2.6 miles	8
Snyders (historical)	2.6 miles	7
Chestnut Ridge (historical)	2.7 miles	7
Sopers (historical)	3.2 miles	7
Greenbriar (historical)	4.0 miles	8
Waynesburg	4.1 miles	8
Broughtentown	4.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742230. 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.