Whitfield, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40071. The Survey maps it on the Waterford quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Whitfield within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1929 USGS Taylorsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Waterford quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Waterford quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Waterford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Whitfield between 1997 and 2014, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARKWELL RD. FIRE
20 March 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BROAD RUN
25 February 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASTERS LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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
Mount Washington	5.1 miles	15
Smithville	6.2 miles	15
Solitude	9.3 miles	11
Zoneton	10.8 miles	17
Hebron Estates	10.9 miles	17
Hebron (historical)	11.0 miles	17
Pioneer Village	11.3 miles	17
Hillview	11.5 miles	17

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 Whitfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7996440	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 517327. 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.