Wolfpen

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Wolfpen, in Mallie, Kentucky, is a historic site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Wolfpen (Mallie, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Knott County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 105 Dead Mare Branch, Mallie, 41836
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. building
Census division. Carr Fork
National Register reference number. 12001200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

345 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Wolfpen between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,300 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 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	154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111
Arson/incendiarism	44
Recreation and ceremony	26
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
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	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Knott 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hindman Historic District	7.4 miles	2013
	Bolen Building	7.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knott County	All 5 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.