Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Ravenna Motor Vehicle Service Building, at 512 Main St. in Ravenna, Kentucky, is a Modern Movement-style Kentucky National Guard building constructed in 1949. It was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Ravenna Motor Vehicle Service Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Estill County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Also known as. Kentucky's National Guard Facilities MPS
Census division. Ravenna
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number.00000278- 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
147 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Ravenna Motor Vehicle Service Building
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5,376 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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
56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35
Arson/incendiarism
28
Recreation and ceremony
23
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Ravenna Motor Vehicle Service Building: 1 prospect, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ravenna, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 5 flood, 2 hail.
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.
Three homes, one business, and multiple vehicles were flooded on Broadway St between Irvine and Ravenna. Other roads that were closed due to flooding in the area included: Old Landing Rd at Buck Creek, Jakes Heavenly Highway, Murphys Rd on Redlick side and Noland Creek Rd.
Local media reported flooding near Ravenna on Kentucky Highways 1571 and 1645. This also caused homes to be surrounded by water as the Kentucky River crested.
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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