Willis Ennis House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 102 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Ennis, Willis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Beech Bend Rd., Plum Springs, 42101
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Warren County MRA
Census division. Bowling Green
National Register reference number. 79003498 - 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Willis Ennis House between 1998 and 2014, burning about 132 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	6
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MORGANTOWN
7 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 1998	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOUISVILLE ROAD FIRE
13 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	22 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 February 2014	Recreation and ceremony	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHIPPOORWILL TRAIL
25 October 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SLIM ISLAN
22 October 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GIRKIN WOO

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Willis Ennis House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bowling Green Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bowling Green Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gary Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
David C. Campbell House	0.3 miles	1979
Edward B. Seeley House	1.0 miles	1979
Fort Webb	1.2 miles	1984
Barren River L & N Railroad Bridge	1.8 miles	1980
William Gossom House	1.8 miles	1979
Confederate Monument of Bowling Green	2.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003498 in Record Group 79.
Warren County	All 102 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.