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White Plains, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nortonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42464. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 417 feet above sea level.

White Plains within Hopkins County

On record in White Plains

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

White Plains grew from 800 to 829 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000800
2010884+84 (+10%)
2020829-55 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of White Plains between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,696 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAN FIRE
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED HILL
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 1997Smoking5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Plains in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2008Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains1 hurt, $130,000Approximately one dozen homes sustained roof damage, including some with partial roof removal. At least two mobile homes were moved off their foundations. Dozens of trees were uprooted. The damage path width averaged less than 1/4 mile. One minor injury occurred.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains$100,000Over 60 trees were blown down, and power lines were snapped. Some of the trees landed on houses and cars. Three vehicles were totalled, and four homes received structural damage due to falling trees. The localized damage was caused by a microburst.
September 2011Tornado (EF2)White Plains$80,000This short-lived tornado occurred along Highway 813. One framed home and one mobile home were destroyed. There was minor damage to two framed homes. Four sheds were destroyed. Power lines were blown down. Several large trees were downed or uprooted. The destroyed mobile home was thrown about 30 feet into a tree. The lone resident of the mobile home was ejected, but he sustained no injuries requiring treatment. The destroyed framed home lost most of the roof, and bricks were shifted. Peak winds were estimated near 120 mph.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains$25,000Thunderstorm wind gusts flipped a tractor-trailer rig onto its side as it travelled along U.S. Highway 62. On Kentucky 813 just north of White Plains, thunderstorm winds lifted from the ground and tore apart a small barn. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in the White Plains area.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains$2,000Medium size tree limbs were blown down. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains$2,000Small trees of two to three inches in diameter were snapped.
March 2023FloodWhite Plains-Water remained over several roads for a day after the heavy rain ended. These roads included state highways 1069, 2281, 254, U.S. Highway 41 at Nortonville, and U.S. 41A.
August 2006Funnel CloudWhite Plains-A funnel cloud was sighted near the Muhlenberg County border south of the Western Kentucky Parkway.
April 2011HailWhite Plains-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Mount Carmel1.4 miles13
Dillingham (historical)1.6 miles12
Concord (historical)1.8 miles12
Stanley (historical)3.3 miles12
Pleasant Hill (historical)3.4 miles12
Nortonville3.7 miles12
Little Valley4.1 miles12
Oak Hill4.3 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on White PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2179430The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 506635. 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.

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.