Fordson Coal Company Buildings

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1355, 1377, and 1393 Pond Creek Rd., Stone, 41567
When was it listed? September 2002
Category. building
Census division. South Williamson
National Register reference number. 02000917 - 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

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Fordson Coal Company Buildings between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,851 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALL FORK
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STONE
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 1999	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2004: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Stone	-	Trees were down.
May 1996	Hail	Stone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Stone Historic District	under 500 feet	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000917 in Record Group 79.
Pike County	All 16 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.