Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Jesse Whitesell House and Farm is a historic property in Fulton County, Kentucky, and Obion County, Tennessee. The house, which is located in Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Jesse Whitesell House and Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000619- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
38 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Jesse Whitesell House
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
11
Recreation and ceremony
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Other causes
2
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Jesse Whitesell House: 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fulton, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flash flood, 3 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.
A large tree was down, blocking Highway 116 west of Fulton. The tree brought down power lines. Trees were also down on Highway 166 west of Fulton. The city of Fulton had significant tree damage. Roofs were off outbuildings around the county.
Flash flooding of streets and low-lying areas was reported. Streets were closed by police and fire personnel. Floodwaters entered a church and a few businesses.
In Fulton, several trees and a number of large tree limbs were blown down. One business in Fulton sustained roof damage, resulting in damaged computers and inventory.
About a half dozen streets were flooded in Fulton. At a viaduct, water reached as high as four feet. Small creeks were at or above bankful. An observer reported 3.20 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Only one business reported any water damage.
A microburst caused damage in a very small area about 600 yards long and 100 yards wide. Tops were blown off trees, a barn roof was damaged, and shingles were blown off a house. Some cornstalks were flattened, and a trampoline was blown 600 yards.
The flash flood event from the previous evening evolved into a longer-term flood event. At Fulton, Harris Fork Creek exceeded its capacity and caused minor street flooding. Kentucky Highway 307 was closed in downtown Fulton. A trained spotter measured 4.25 inches in 24 hours in Fulton.
Water was approaching the back of stores in the Fulton business district, prompting sandbagging of some buildings. City streets were flooded, and a couple were closed. South of Cayce, the intersection of Highways 94 and 239 was closed.
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
5 within 8 miles
Other 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.
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.
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.
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