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McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters

Built in 1833 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters, near Wurtland, Kentucky, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The listing included three contributing buildings and a contributing site on 15 acres (6.1 ha).”

Wikipedia article McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greenup County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1833, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

  • Address. W of Wurtland on U.S. 23, Wurtland, 41144
  • When was it listed? July 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wurtland
  • When was it built? 1833
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture, Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75000764 - 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,774 acres in total. 1 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestJANIE FIRE
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestHANGING ROCK SPUR A
10 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution250 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11905
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresWayne National ForestSNAP 2 FIRE
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Haverhill Plant & DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Bush-Corn MineClayPast Producer
Hoods Run MineClayPast Producer
Smith MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wurtland, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Flash FloodWurtland$100,000Around 1.5 to 1.75 inches of rain fell in less than an hour. This localized downpour affected such stream basins as Kennedy Hollow, Pond Run, and White Oak Creek. The residential areas aided in the runoff.||Near the mouth of Kennedy Hollow, the culvert under Route 23 could not handle the runoff from the residential area. The stream backed up into homes along First Street. Elsehwere, a few businesses along Diederich Boulevard got water inside. A few vehicles were stranded in high water.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWurtland$8,000Multiple neighborhoods observed tree and power line damage near US 23, including Wurtland Avenue, Virginia Street, Heaberlin Road, Chinns Branch Road, Clark Lane, Baptist Street, Grubb Road, and Horsely Cemetery Road.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindWurtland$2,000Trees were blown down along Chinns Branch and Route 693.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWurtland$1,500Trees were blown down near Virgil Burks Drive in Wurtland. One of the trees clipped the corner of a house along the road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWurtland$500In Wurtland, several trees were blown down at US Highway 23 North and Virginia Street.
April 2025Flash FloodWurtland-Flooding was observed along Uhland Branch Road near Wurtland.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWurtland-A massive tree fell down and blocked portions of State Route 207 near Wurtland.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindWurtland-A tree was blown down onto a power line and resulted in 193 customers without power.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWurtland-Trees were blown down onto power lines.
March 2012Funnel CloudWurtland-A funnel cloud was just south of the Ohio River.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWurtland-Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wurtland Union Church0.4 miles2008
Worthington House2.6 miles1988
Jesse Stuart House2.6 miles1982
McKee House2.7 miles1988
Kouns-Hoffman House2.9 miles1988
Methodist Episcopal Church South3.0 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000764 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenup CountyAll 18 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.