Wooton Presbyterian Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Wooton Presbyterian Center, also known as Wooton Community Center, is a historic building on KY 80 in Wooton, Kentucky. It was built during 1919-21 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Wooton Presbyterian Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Leslie County · listed in 1979 · 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. KY 80, Wooton, 41776
When was it listed? May 1979
Category. building
Census division. Cutshin
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
National Register reference number. 79001019 - 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Wooton Presbyterian Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,529 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	72
Arson/incendiarism	38
Recreation and ceremony	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
29 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	799 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	63 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOOLY FK
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Storms near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wooton, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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 2008	Funnel Cloud	Wooton	$25,000	A funnel cloud was observed passing over a house in Wooton and then touching down on Highway 1807 approximately 1 mile east of Wooton. Extensive tree and power line damage occurred along a 150 yard damage path.
May 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Wooton	$25,000	An EF-1 tornado with wind speeds of around 95 mph briefly touched down one mile southeast of Wooton. Large trees were either snapped off or blown over. One tree fell onto a power line.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	$1,500	Leslie County Dispatch reported telephone lines were down and blocking both lanes of KY-80 near the intersection with Wooton Road in the community of Wooton, just southwest of Hazard.
February 2018	Flood	Wooton	$1,000	Highway 699 was closed due to high water.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Wooton	$1,000	Three feet of water was observed flowing over Hwy 80 near Grace Community Health Care and Highway 1807 was closed due to high water from Wooton Creek covering the road.
May 2023	Hail	Wooton	-	County dispatch reported approximately penny-sized (0.75 inch) hail near Wooton.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	A tree was blown down and onto a trailer.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	A tree was blown down and onto a trailer.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	Trees were reported down on Hwy 80.
April 2011	Hail	Wooton	-	The hail was the size of golf balls.
August 2009	Flood	Wooton	-	Flood water was reported to be across KY Highway 80.
August 2009	Flood	Wooton	-	High water was reported over KY Highway 699.
May 2008	Hail	Wooton	-	Penny size hail fell for 5 minutes.
May 2007	Hail	Wooton	-	Penny sized hail.
April 2006	Hail	Wooton	-	Golf ball size hail reported.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	Trees were down.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Wooton	-	Highway 699 was closed at Saw Hole Branch due to high water, with water flowing into the fire station. A section of Highway 1807 was under water, with Old Highway 80 also under water.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	Large tree limbs were down.
January 2002	Flash Flood	Wooton	-	A report of two feet of water over Meeting House Branch was reported by the 24 Hour Warning Point.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	Trees were downed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooton	-	Trees downed.
April 2006	Hail	Wooton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Wooton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Wooton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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

3 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
Roderick McIntosh Farm	2.6 miles	1991
Frontier Nursing Service	4.4 miles	1991
Wendover	5.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001019 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leslie County	All 5 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.