White Run, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Horse Branch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42349. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosine quadrangle.

White Run within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1925 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Rosine quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Rosine quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of White Run between 1999 and 2014, burning about 356 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
18 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	86 FIRE
30 August 1999	Smoking	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2014	Arson/incendiarism	81 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 62 RAILROAD
21 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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
Horse Branch	2.0 miles	11
Dogwalk	2.8 miles	11
Renfrow	3.3 miles	11
Windy Hill	3.8 miles	11
Arnold	3.8 miles	11
Rosine	5.3 miles	11
Olaton	6.1 miles	12
Mount Pleasant	6.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509360. 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.