New Zion Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The New Zion Historic District, near Scott, Kentucky, is a 37 acres (15 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It included 27 contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and 10 contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article New Zion Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 4972 Newtown Pike through 5200 Newtown Pike, and 103-135 New Zion Rd., Scott, 40511
When was it listed? December 2008
Category. district
Census division. Georgetown
National Register reference number. 08001118 - 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Zion Historic District in 2010, burning about 25 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	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
15 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CORN HOLE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Zion Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Craig Vein	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
Georgetown Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Nally and Gibson	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Flournoy-Nutter House	0.5 miles	1977
Leatherer-Lemon House	0.5 miles	1977
John M. Garth House	1.0 miles	1974
Matthew Flournoy House	1.3 miles	1983
Dr. William Addison Smith House	1.7 miles	1984
Matthew Henry House	1.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001118 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 83 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.