Franklin R. Sousley Birthplace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fleming County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Sousley, Franklin R., Birthplace - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4 mi. SW of Elizaville on KY 170, Elizaville, 41039
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Ewing
National Register reference number. 74000870 - 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Franklin R. Sousley Birthplace between 1999 and 2016, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	17 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BRIAR PATCH RD.
8 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this property

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizaville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Elizaville	$7,500	A social media report indicated that multiple large trees were blown down by intense winds. Specifically, two large trees came down on a property along Dillon Lane and one of them hit a house. There was no precipitation observed with the wind.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Elizaville Presbyterian Church	3.8 miles	1977
Ben Johnson House	7.0 miles	1982
Thomas W. Fleming House	7.0 miles	1979
First Presbyterian Church	7.0 miles	1977
Flemingsburg Historic District	7.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000870 in Record Group 79.
Fleming County	All 10 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.
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.