Photograph of Shaker Museum at South Union — Photograph by E.R. Pearson, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Union Shakertown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Shaker Museum at South Union is a museum of Shaker history located at the site of the South Union Shaker Village in Auburn, Kentucky, United States.”
Wikipedia article Shaker Museum at South Union, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Logan 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 6 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 73 at Louisville and Nashville RR tracks, and jct. of U.S. 68, South Union and vicinity, 42206
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
Census division. Auburn
National Register reference number. 75000796 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of South Union Shakertown Historic District between 2000 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
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
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 Shakertown Historic District: 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

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

4 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 Shaker Center House and Preservatory	0.8 miles	1974
McCutchen Meadows	1.5 miles	1984
G. W. Davidson House and Bank	3.1 miles	1982
Auburn Historic District	3.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000796 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.