Buckhorn Presbyterian Church and the Greer Gymnasium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Buckhorn Presbyterian Church and the Geer Gymnasium are two historic log buildings located off KY 28 in Buckhorn, Kentucky. The church and the gymnasium, completed in 1928 and 1927 respectively, are the only two surviving buildings from Witherspoon College, a Buckhorn school which served grades 1-12.”
Wikipedia article Buckhorn Presbyterian Church and the Greer Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Perry 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off KY 28, Buckhorn, 41721
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. building
Census division. Buckhorn
National Register reference number. 75000818 - 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

160 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn Presbyterian Church and the Greer Gymnasium between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,334 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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	61
Arson/incendiarism	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	2

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
9 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	415 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOWLING CREEK RD.
21 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 June 2012	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARWICK
19 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAM JOHNSO

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhorn, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down. One tree fell and crushed a car at Squabble Creek. No injuries were reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$6,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts tore down numerous large branches.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$2,000	Bleachers and a building at ballfield were damaged.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$1,000	Social media report of trees down in the community of Buckhorn. One downed tree demolished a swing set and trampoline.
December 2019	Flood	Buckhorn	$1,000	Dispatch reported water on Kentucky Highway 2022 near Buckhorn.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Hwy 28 in Buckhorn.
May 2023	Hail	Buckhorn	-	Army Corp. or Engineer employee relayed a picture of ping pong ball-sized (1.50 inch) hail that fell at Buckhorn Lake Dam.
January 2022	Heavy Rain	Buckhorn	-	The US Army Corps of Engineer's station at Buckhorn Lake recorded 4.31 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
March 2021	Flash Flood	Buckhorn	-	Picture from social media shows a high school being inundated with water in the Buckhorn community. Water is flowing at a pretty good clip, with rushing water very evident.
June 2021	Heavy Rain	Buckhorn	-	The USACE observing site measured 1.60 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	A citizen observed trees blown down at a campground near Buckhorn Lake.
August 2013	Heavy Rain	Buckhorn	-	The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.45 inches.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	A couple of trees were blown down off of KY Hwy 28 near Buckhorn High School.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	Several trees down in Buckhorn State Park with one tree across the road near the Corp of Engineers building.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	One tree down across Highway 2022 near Buckhorn, and another down in Vicco.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Buckhorn	-	Kentucky Highway 2022 had 8 to 10 inches of water flowing across it from the flooding of Squabble Creek.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	Trees were reported to be blown down.
April 2015	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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 75000818 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 3 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.