Built in 1867 (Burr Truss). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Ringos Mill Covered Bridge spans Fox Creek in Fleming County, Kentucky, in a single 90-foot span. It was named for a grist mill situated 50 yards downstream.”
Wikipedia article Ringos Mill Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fleming County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1867, Burr Truss.
National Register reference number.76000880- 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
45 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Ringos Mill Covered Bridge
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 409 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Recreation and ceremony
6
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Flemingsburg, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 32 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
A ten foot wall of water was flowing down Fleming Creek and caused mass destruction of homes and vehicles in the South Lick area. About four feet of water covered several roads in the Lake Tilton area.
A small barn was blown into Cherry Grove Road at Mill Creek Road. A tree was blown down across Watson Road. All damage was caused by winds estimated at 61 mph.
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
2 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.
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.
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