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One of 2 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
H.M. Smith General Merchandise and Fonthill Post Office
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 279 South KY SR 76, Fonthill, 42642
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Eli
- National Register reference number. 100009730 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of H.M. Smith General Merchandise and Fonthill Post Office between 1999 and 2019, burning about 249 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 215 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CHARLES GIBBS |
| 10 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 November 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 November 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GINGER FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Russell Lodge No. 284 | 7.6 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009730 in Record Group 79. |
| Russell County | All 2 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.