Photograph of Fitchburg Furnace — Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Red River Iron Furnace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Fitchburg Furnace is a historic iron furnace located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Estill County, KY.”
Wikipedia article Fitchburg Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Estill County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 975, in Daniel Boone National Forest, Fitchburg, 40472
When was it listed? May 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Ravenna
National Register reference number. 74000860 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Red River Iron Furnace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,955 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	CHESTNUT STAND
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FITCHBURG RD
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	HALE RIDGE #1
25 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FURNACE JUNCTION ROAD
8 April 1992	Debris and open burning	33 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OIL WELL

Every fire recorded in Estill 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 Red River Iron Furnace: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
	Highway 52 Roadcut	Clay	Prospect
	Tipton Ridge Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitchburg, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 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
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fitchburg	-	A local utility company reported a large oak tree blown down on to power lines on Whitepine Lane in the Furnace area, northeast of Irvine.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fitchburg	-	A few 14 inch diameter trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cottage Iron Furnace	3.8 miles	1973
Ravenna Motor Vehicle Service Building	6.4 miles	2000
Irvine Grade School	6.7 miles	2000
Irvine Historic Business District	7.1 miles	2000
Riverview Hotel	7.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Estill County	All 6 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.