Nathaniel Dunn House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Dunn, Nathaniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Nicolasville off U.S. 68, Nicolasville, 40356
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. building
Census division. Keene
National Register reference number. 79001015 - 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Nathaniel Dunn House in 2014, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NEELY

Every fire recorded in Jessamine 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 Nathaniel Dunn House: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Lexington Quarry Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc	Producer
	Miss Kate	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc	Plant

Every working recorded in Jessamine 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

6 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
Woodland	0.5 miles	1984
Chaumiere des Prairies	0.7 miles	1975
George O'Neal House	1.0 miles	1985
James O'Neal House	1.5 miles	1985
Burrier House	1.7 miles	1984
William C. Lowry House	1.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001015 in Record Group 79.
Jessamine County	All 73 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.