John Shell Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The John Shell Cabin, in Leslie County, Kentucky, located south of Chappell, Kentucky on Greasy Creek Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article John Shell Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Leslie County · listed in 1975 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Shell, John, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S of Chappell on SR 2005, Chappell, 40840
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. building
Census division. Mozelle
National Register reference number. 75000791 - 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

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of John Shell Cabin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 9,053 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 May 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	84 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DUSTY TRAIL
6 April 2011	Arson/incendiarism	19 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	POWERLINE 2
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL FIRE
5 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DINGO RD

Every fire recorded in Leslie 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 John Shell Cabin: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	Jones and Mcmahon Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
	Raines Mine	Manganese	Prospect

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappell, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	The county 911 Dispatch reported a tree to have been blown down due to thunderstorm winds on Hwy 2009 near Robins Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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 75000791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leslie County	All 5 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.