Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church in College Hill, Kentucky. It was built in c.1812-1813 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1978 · 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. N of College Hill, College Hill, 40385
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Waco-Bybee
National Register reference number. 78001381 - 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church between 1999 and 2012, burning about 51 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
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 April 2001	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 November 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GORDON ROA
10 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEDDLES MILL
31 October 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Hill, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	College Hill	-	Multiple trees were downed by strong winds along College Hill Road near the community of Waco.
January 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	College Hill	-	There was damage to a barn roof on College Hill Road.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	College Hill	-	A tree was reported down on Griggs Lane.
June 2009	Flash Flood	College Hill	-	Water was two feet over a bridge on Oakley Wells Road, shutting the road down.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Shearer Store	4.2 miles	1990
Moberly House	6.0 miles	1989
Cornelison Pottery	6.5 miles	1978
Whitney Cobb House	7.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 75 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.