BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ritchie Family Home Place
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 88 Slabtown Hollow, Viper, 41774
- When was it listed? April 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Viper
- National Register reference number. 100010243 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
453 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Ritchie Family Home Place between 1993 and 2020, burning about 19,002 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 81 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 | 183 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 135 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 81 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JEFF |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | ORCHARD |
| 26 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ritchie Family Home Place: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch Gap Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Buffalo Divide Shale | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
14 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Viper, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Viper | $30,000 | Lewis Hollow Road washed out by flood water. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | $15,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in Viper. |
| February 2020 | Flood | Viper | $8,000 | Dispatch relayed a report of water over Upper River Road near Viper. Additionally, a couple of homes near Viper and Jeff had water get under their floors and carpet. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | $7,000 | Trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | $1,000 | One tree was blown down along Highway 7. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | Trees were reported to have been blown down in the Viper Community of Perry County. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | An official from the Viper Fire Department reported numerous downed trees, as well as a mobile home and carport being heavily damaged due to thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2018 | Debris Flow | Viper | - | The Department of Highways relayed a report of a mudslide on Kentucky Highway 7 south of Hazard. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | A tree was blown down on Maces Creek Rd. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | One tree fell down on power lines on Elizabeth Drive in Hazard, and another tree was down in Viper, blocking one lane of Kentucky Highway 1165. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | Three trees were down on Left Fork of Maces Creek. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Viper | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Viper | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Viper | - | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Gym | 4.6 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010243 in Record Group 79. |
| Perry County | All 3 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.
- 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.