BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Rockcastle County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Great Saltpetre Cave
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- Address. 237 Saltpetre Cave Rd., Mt. Vernon, 40445
- When was it listed? July 2013
- Category. district
- Census division. Livingston
- National Register reference number. 13000565 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
225 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Great Saltpetre Cave between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,714 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 112 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 | 112 |
| Debris and open burning | 68 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | POPLAR GAP |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | TRACE BRANCH |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | DRY |
| 7 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Lair House and Stables | 7.2 miles | 1995 |
 | Bennett Hiatt Log House | 7.2 miles | 1984 |
 | Mount Vernon Commercial District | 7.6 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000565 in Record Group 79. |
| Rockcastle 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.