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Whitewood, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greensburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. It stands on Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greensburg quadrangle.

Whitewood within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

33 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Whitewood between 1999 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARSHALL RIDGE ROAD
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLEMONS BEND RD. FIRE
5 March 2017Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMPBELLSVILLE HWY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green 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 Whitewood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Greensburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitewood in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWhitewood-There was a tree down on Whitewood Road.

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Bluff Boom1.4 miles9
Black Gnat1.4 miles9
Roachville3.0 miles10
Greensburg3.7 miles9
Gresham6.0 miles10
Summersville6.4 miles10
Haskingsville7.0 miles10
Thurlow7.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509364. 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.