BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Big Spring School-Oliver Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- Listed as. Big Spring School--Oliver Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 3293 and 3109 Big Springs Rd., Settle, 42164
- When was it listed? July 2004
- Category. district
- Census division. Settle
- National Register reference number. 03000712 - 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
7 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Big Spring School-Oliver Farmstead between 2004 and 2010, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 November 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RIVER BLUFF FIRE |
| 21 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MARTINSVILLE FORD FIRE |
Storms near this property
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Settle, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Settle | $15,000 | Three homes had roof damage near Settle. Fifteen trees were also downed. |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Settle | - | A photo showed a tree down on a home in northwestern Allen County. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Settle | - | Multiple trees were reported down near Cemetery Road and Shockley Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Settle | - | A tree and barn were damaged. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Settle | - | A trained spotter reported to the NWS trees fell near the Barren River Dam. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Settle | - | A spotter reported quarter sized hail near the town of Yesse. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Settle | - | Nickel size hail reported by a spotter. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Settle | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward and Julia Satterfield House | 5.7 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000712 in Record Group 79. |
| Allen County | All 12 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.