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Whitehouse, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Paintsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41240. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Offutt quadrangle.

Whitehouse within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

224 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Whitehouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,509 acres in total. None started naturally. 56 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 burning83
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1
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 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMAHAWK
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRT. 40 WIL
21 August 2008Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2008Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTRACE FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whitehouse: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Greasy Creek Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehouse in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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
February 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse$2,000A few large tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Chestnut1.5 miles17
Offutt2.3 miles16
Williamsport4.0 miles16
Tutor Key4.1 miles17
Nippa4.7 miles17
Thelma5.2 miles17
Wittensville5.4 miles17
Meally5.7 miles16

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 WhitehouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691515The 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 506656. 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.