West-Metcalfe House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The West-Metcalfe House, in Wayne County, Kentucky, about 1.75 miles (2.82 km) south of Mill Springs on the Cumberland River, was built in 1800. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article West-Metcalfe House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1.75 mi. S of Mill Springs off KY 90, Mill Springs, 42633
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. building
Census division. Mill Springs
National Register reference number. 77000661 - 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of West-Metcalfe House between 2000 and 2019, burning about 246 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2000	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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

5 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
Mill Springs Mill	1.0 miles	1973
Monticello Historic Commercial District	7.3 miles	1982
Hotel Breeding	7.4 miles	1988
Fairchild House	7.7 miles	2008
Wayne County High School	7.9 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000661 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 7 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.