Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Church, also known as Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church located north of Gamaliel, Kentucky on Kentucky Route 100. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Mount Vernon AME Church (Gamaliel, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Gamaliel on KY 100, Gamaliel, 42140
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. building
Census division. Fountain Run
National Register reference number. 77000639 - 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

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church between 1999 and 2017, burning about 128 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
22 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2010	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOVERS LANE FIRE
4 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FREETOWN

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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
	Gamaliel	Zinc	Prospect
	Trico Stone Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gamaliel, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2018	Flood	Gamaliel	1 killed, $10,000	A 19 year old female on Lyons Road attempted to drive through a low water crossing on the Rocky Branch of the East Fork of the Barren River just before 7 pm CST on New Year's Eve, but was washed away by the swollen creek's rising water. Her vehicle was carried downstream 500 yards, where it was discovered unoccupied the next day. After several days of searching, law enforcement located her body seven miles downstream on January 5, 2019.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	$75,000	One barn was blown down and two other barns suffered roof damage.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	$20,000	A garage was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	$7,500	Trees were downed. One fell on a mobile home.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	There were trees down in Gamaliel.
August 2019	Hail	Gamaliel	-	The public reported hail the size of quarters at Gamaliel Shooting Supply.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Trees were reported down.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down in Gamaliel.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	The public reported that several trees were downed in Gamaliel and other locations around Monroe County.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Several trees were downed on mile north of on State Highway 100.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	A tree was blown down and it was blocking Fountain Run Rd.
August 2010	Heavy Rain	Gamaliel	-	A trained spotter reported 3.15 inches of rain over 2 1/2 hours. Minor flooding was reported.
August 2010	Heavy Rain	Gamaliel	-	The public reported 6.31 inches of rain had fallen since midnight.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Tree limbs were reported downed.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Trees downed near Gamaliel.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Trees were downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	Trees were downed.
July 2016	Hail	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gamaliel	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Old Mulkey Meetinghouse	5.1 miles	1973
	Thomas P. Evans House	6.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 6 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.