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One of 4 National Register listings published here for Letcher County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dunham High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. #4 Hollow off Hwy 805, Jenkins, 41537
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Jenkins
- National Register reference number. 100011679 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
207 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Dunham High School between 1996 and 2020, burning about 9,101 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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 | 84 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2007 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JOE'S BR #2 |
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUSTY RD. |
| 28 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JOE'S BR. |
| 27 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 132 acres | George Washington & Jefferson National Forests | TUCKER GAP |
| 26 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | George Washington & Jefferson National Forests | LAUREL FORK |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dunham High School: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenkins Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Number 1 Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Number 1 Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenkins, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2020 | Flood | Jenkins | $350,000 | A local radio station reported nearly 3 dozen roads impacted by flood waters across Letcher County, including several locations in Whitesburg and Jenkins. Mudslides were also caused by the previous heavy rainfall. Elkhorn Dam was seen with water rushing over it into the streets downtown due to the heavy rain.||Emergency Management also reported numerous roads impacted by flood waters. The most substantial of these being on Orchard Road near the community of Ice, west of Whitesburg. High water in the North Fork of the Kentucky River caused a pier of a bridge to be ripped up and destroyed. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jenkins | - | County highway department reported a tree blown down onto KY-805 between 1 and 2 miles from the Pike County Line. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Jenkins | - | A tree was blown down and onto Kentucky Highway 805 northeast of Jenkins, blocking the road. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Jenkins | - | There were 6 to 8 inches of standing water over portions of Highway 80 east and west in the vicinity of Jenkins. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Jenkins | - | Several county and city roads were closed due to flash flooding. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Jenkins | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jenkins | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jenkins School | 0.1 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011679 in Record Group 79. |
| Letcher County | All 4 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.