Whitesville, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42378. It lies near Barnetts Knob. The Survey maps it on the Whitesville quadrangle. 580 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.
On record in Whitesville
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
- James L. Stinnett Houselisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresWhitesville grew from 552 to 580 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 552 | |
| 2020 | 580 | +28 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Whitesville between 1997 and 2010, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROAD BANK FIRE |
| 9 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesville in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Whitesville | $75,000 | The tornado touched down and lifted several times. The tornado skipped along Kentucky Highway 54 through the town of Whitesville. Several small outbuildings were destroyed. Several telephone poles were snapped off. Generally minor roof damage occurred to several houses. A mobile home and a modular home had extensive roof damage. Peak winds were estimated near 80 MPH. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $30,000 | A roof was blown off a barn. One carport was destroyed, with debris spread over about 100 yards. One power line was down. Several barns and outbuildings sustained some roof damage. Two corn fields with corn about four feet high were blown down to the southeast. A large number of limbs up to two inches in diameter were blown down. All the damage occurred within a radius of about two miles. |
| September 1996 | Lightning | Whitesville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $10,000 | A tin roof was blown off of a building in Whitesville, the only visible wind damage in the area. Minor hail damage was also reported in the area. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Whitesville | $10,000 | A car crashed due to flash flooding of a county road near Haynes Station and Whitesville. Vehicles were stalled in floodwaters, and there was widespread flooding of county roads. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $10,000 | A wind gust to 70 mph was measured by a trained spotter. There were downed tree limbs and power outages. |
| July 2010 | Lightning | Whitesville | $10,000 | A three-alarm house fire was apparently started by a lightning strike. Lightning appeared to have struck a vent pipe on top of the home, sending a surge down into the pantry of the home on the first floor. The home sustained moderate smoke and water damage in the kitchen area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $8,000 | Trees were uprooted or snapped. Large tree limbs were down. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $7,000 | A large tree fell across Kentucky 54. The porch of a home was struck. |
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $5,000 | Several large trees were uprooted on Old Leitchfield Rd east of Whitesville from the second storm to move across Daviess County in the late night hours. This storm intensified just before exiting the county. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $5,000 | Trees were down on the east side of the county, blocking roads. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $4,000 | A large tobacco barn was blown across a road, and about a dozen trees were down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $3,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | A couple of large tree limbs were blown down. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Whitesville | - | The hail was associated with passing rain showers. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Whitesville | - | Ditches were overflowing, and water was over the road in a number of places. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Whitesville | - | The dime-size hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | - | Three trees were blown down. |
| June 2006 | Heavy Rain | Whitesville | - | Nearly an inch of rain was received within 20 minutes. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | - | Dozens of trees were blown down along the Daviess/Ohio County line. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Whitesville | - | Thunderstorms repeatedly moved across Daviess County from the late evening of the 25th into the wee morning hours of the 26th. The heaviest rainfall was near Whitesville, in the eastern part of the county. Radar estimated more than 3 inches per hour in that area. Water was standing on numerous roads in Whitesville. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | - | Small trees were down at Whitesville. Downed trees knocked down power lines, interrupting service to 360 houses. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Boston | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Grandview | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Laffoon | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Lawrence (historical) | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Knottsville | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Habit | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Philpot | 7.1 miles | 13 |
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 Whitesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2159985 | The 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 506683. 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.







