Pocket Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along See Rd., KY 57 and KY 1198, Sharpsburg, 40311
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. district
Census division. North Middletown
National Register reference number. 03000257 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pocket Rural Historic District between 2000 and 2011, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROGERS MILL
7 February 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 November 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PISGAH ROAD

Every fire recorded in Bourbon 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Snow Hill	2.0 miles	1997
Little Rock-Jackstown Road Rural Historic District	2.4 miles	2004
Hopkins House	2.7 miles	1983
Bayless Quarters	5.1 miles	1983
Ephram Harrod House	6.0 miles	1983
Walker Buckner House	6.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000257 in Record Group 79.
Bourbon County	All 59 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.