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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Daviess County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
James L. Stinnett House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Stinnett, James L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 10184 Hwy 54, Whitesville, 42378
- When was it listed? December 2019
- Category. building
- Census division. Whitesville-Philpot
- National Register reference number. 100004830 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of James L. Stinnett House 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 |
Storms near this property
30 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesville, the town this property stands in, 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 |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | McKay-Thornberry House | 7.7 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004830 in Record Group 79. |
| Daviess County | All 38 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.