Berea College Forest

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Berea College Forest between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,420 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berea, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 10 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,228 issues, 9,113 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Merritt Jones Tavern	1.8 miles	1973
	Lincoln Hall	3.1 miles	1974
	Churchill Weavers	3.1 miles	2014
	Berea College Square Commercial Historic District	3.2 miles	2020
	Boone Tavern Hotel	3.2 miles	1996
	Berea Downtown Commercial and Residential Historic District	3.5 miles	2020