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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Breathitt County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Morris Fork Presbyterian Church and Community Center
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 908 Morris Fork Rd, Morris Fork, 41314
- When was it listed? November 2010
- Category. building
- Census division. Canoe
- National Register reference number. 10000908 - 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
136 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Morris Fork Presbyterian Church and Community Center between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,601 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 62 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | STINGER |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOWLING CREEK RD. |
| 24 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morris Fork, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Morris Fork | $15,000 | Flash flooding from heavy rains caused part of Morris Fork Road to break off. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | $7,500 | Social media report of a small tree down on a barn near the end of Freeman Fork Road in extreme SW Breathitt County. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | $3,000 | Trees were blown down in Morris Fork. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | - | A tree was blown down on Houston Road near Morris Fork. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Morris Fork | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Morris Fork | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000908 in Record Group 79. |
| Breathitt County | All 7 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.