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Pearce-Wheeler Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Pearce-Wheeler Farm, near Canmer in Hart County, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing site.”

Wikipedia article Pearce-Wheeler Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Pearce--Wheeler Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 640 Sims Cemetery Rd., Canmer, 42722
  • When was it listed? November 2005
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Hardyville
  • National Register reference number. 05001317 - 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Pearce-Wheeler Farm between 2006 and 2019, burning about 71 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOBB BEND
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2013Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRICE RD

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canmer, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1996Thunderstorm WindCanmer2 hurt, $50,000no account filed
May 2025HailCanmer-Ping pong ball sized hail was observed east of Hardyville.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCanmer-A tree was blown down along Boyds Knob Road.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCanmer-The Munfordville Mesonet station measured a wind gust of 74 MPH.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCanmer-A Kentucky Mesonet site measured a 58 mph wind gust.
January 2018HailCanmer-no account filed
June 2007HailCanmer-no account filed
May 2006HailCanmer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Memorial Elementary School4.2 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001317 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hart CountyAll 21 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.