Bill Monroe Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Bill Monroe Farm is a historic farm attributed to being the birthplace of Bill Monroe, creator of the bluegrass music genre. The farm is 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) and is located near Rosine in Ohio County, Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Bill Monroe Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Ohio County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Monroe, Bill, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Approximately 2 mi. west of the jct. of US 62 and KY 1544, Rosine, 42333
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. district
Census division. Horse Branch
National Register reference number. 03000648 - 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

25 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bill Monroe Farm between 2000 and 2014, burning about 310 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
22 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLISTER FIRE
17 July 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	55 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKY CREEK
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2014	Arson/incendiarism	81 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 62 RAILROAD

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this property

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosine, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Rosine	-	The National Weather Service conducted the storm survey in Ohio County. A bow echo structure created a very brief spin up tornado in the Rosine community in eastern Ohio County. \|\|The tornado touched down about 200 yards west of the Dollar General store. The tornado did some minor roof damage to the Dollar General store, along with the snapping and uprooting of a few trees. Drone imagery clearly saw the trees pointing in multiple directions. Winds in this area were estimated between 75 and 80 mph. \|\|The tornado was very intermittent as it moved to the east-northeast, with more substantial damage along State Highway 1544 in Rosine. Several homes received shingle damage, along with snapped and uprooted trees. \|\|A large RV protective carport was picked up and thrown about 50 yards, and subsequently a telephone pole was sheared off. A single wide mobile home was pushed off of its cinder block foundation to the southwest about 7 feet. Another mobile home sustained roof damage, and there was also significant rock and mud spatter against three sides of the mobile home. Winds were estimated to be a maximum of 85 mph in this area with a width of 50 yards. \|\|There were a number of cedar trees sheared off half way up the trees. Metal siding was thrown downwind up to 500 yards into the forest. The tornado lifted shortly after hitting those mobile homes.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosine	-	Ohio County Dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 62 just before Rosine.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosine	-	The Ohio County emergency manager reported trees down near Rosine.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosine	-	Local law enforcement officials reported to the NWS that trees were down in Rosine because of severe thunderstorm winds.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosine	-	The Ohio County emergency manager reported that several roads were blocked by downed trees in Rosine.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosine	-	Local broadcast media reported a tree down across the Western Kentucky Parkway near Pea Ridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Rosine General Store and Barn	1.7 miles	2003
Hartford Seminary	7.9 miles	1973
Samuel E. Hill House	7.9 miles	1980
Old Town Historic District	7.9 miles	1988
Pendleton House	7.9 miles	1973
Downtown Hartford Historic District	8.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000648 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ohio County	All 11 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.