Whites Creek, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Savage Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burnaugh quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Whites Creek within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Whites Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,287 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	31
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	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
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	WAYNE AVE.
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELIZABETH COURT
21 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RT 75 AND RT 52 INTERSECTION
3 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUCK HAVEN
3 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RICE BRANCH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd 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
Savage Branch	0.8 miles	23
Lockwood	2.8 miles	23
Chadwick Creek (historical)	3.2 miles	22
Oakland Addition (historical)	3.8 miles	23
Durbin	4.3 miles	23
Riggs Tract (historical)	4.3 miles	23
Catlettsburg	4.5 miles	23
Big Sandy (historical)	4.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2088740. 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.