South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory is a historic Shaker building on U.S. 68 in South Union, Kentucky. It was built in 1822 and added to the National Register in 1974.”
Wikipedia article South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 68, South Union, 42206
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. building
Census division. Auburn
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 74000891 - 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory between 2000 and 2019, burning about 25 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
29 June 2012	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STAMPS FIR
21 June 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HUDSON LANE FIRE
2 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HARDISON ROAD

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory: 1 producer. 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
	Tri County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Union, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 1993	Hail	South Union	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
South Union Shakertown Historic District	under 500 feet	1975
South Union Shakertown Historic District	0.8 miles	1975
McCutchen Meadows	2.2 miles	1984
G. W. Davidson House and Bank	3.9 miles	1982
Auburn Historic District	4.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000891 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 20 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.