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One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
May's Lick Negro School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 5003 Raymond Rd., May's Lick, 41055
- When was it listed? March 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Mays Lick
- National Register reference number. 100002160 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of May's Lick Negro School in 2016, burning about 8 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PLEASANT VALLEY RD. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springhouse in Mays Lick | 0.1 miles | 1987 | |
 | Mays Lick Consolidated School | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Poague House | 1.1 miles | 1987 |
| Stone Barn on Lee's Creek | 1.1 miles | 1987 | |
| Spring House at Flat Fork | 1.6 miles | 1987 | |
| Helena United Methodist Church | 3.8 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002160 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Mason County | All 43 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.