Wilson Samuels House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Listed as. Samuels, Wilson, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 160 South St. Gregory Church Road, Samuels, 40013
When was it listed? April 2024
Category. building
Census division. Coxs Creek
National Register reference number. 100010189 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Wilson Samuels House between 1999 and 2019, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	6
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
27 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEATSVILLE
27 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	R J CORMAN FIRE
24 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHEELER FIRE
10 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samuels, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Samuels	-	Trained spotters reported tree limbs down in the area.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Samuels	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
T. W. Samuels Distillery Historic District	1.9 miles	1988
Stone House on Buffalo Creek	3.1 miles	1983
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Historic District	4.0 miles	1984
Ben Johnson House	5.5 miles	1979
Confederate Monument of Bardstown	5.7 miles	1997
Bruntwood	5.8 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010189 in Record Group 79.
Nelson County	All 44 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.