Elkhorn City Elementary and High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 551 Russell St., Elkhorn City, 41522
When was it listed? March 2015
Category. building
Census division. Elkhorn City
National Register reference number. 15000085 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

217 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn City Elementary and High School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11,840 acres in total. None started naturally. 60 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Recreation and ceremony	25
Other causes	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 1995	Other causes	8.0 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HONEY FORK
28 September 2020	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROUTE 80
19 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHN MOORES BRANCH
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
24 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn City Elementary and High School: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
	Elkhorn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Johnson Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkhorn City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 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
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Elkhorn City	$5,000	Numerous windows damaged and some minor roof damage was noted. Also, at least 35 trees were blown down. Report was from Elkhorn City Fire Department.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Elkhorn City	-	Police reported several trees blocking roads.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000085 in Record Group 79.
Pike County	All 16 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.