Arthur Lakes Log House

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Arthur Lakes Log House, located at 401 Lakes Creek Rd. in McKee, Kentucky, United States, was built in about 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Arthur Lakes Log House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1890.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lakes, Arthur, Log House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 401 Lakes Creek Rd., McKee, 40447
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. building
Census division. McKee
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 00000867 - 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Arthur Lakes Log House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,480 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 116 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
Arson/incendiarism	116
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	GRENADE
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LOWER DRY FORK
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	CARLTON ROAD #2
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	STEER FORK
3 August 2007	Natural	43 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BECKETT
18 August 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BRUSHY RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arthur Lakes Log House: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clover Bottom Underground	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McKee, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Hail	McKee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000867 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 2 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.
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.