BlockFrom the record
One of 62 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Martin House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. On Lower Howard's Creek, Winchester (formerly Hootentown), 40391
- When was it listed? August 1979
- Category. building
- Also known as. Clark County MRA
- Census division. Ford-Boonesborough
- National Register reference number. 79003591 - 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
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Martin House between 2004 and 2017, burning about 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MT. MORIAH FIRE |
| 10 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | EKU-FM |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Martin House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boonesboro Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Smitha Vein | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | Barite, Fluorite, Sphalerite |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodford-Fishback-Venable Farm | 0.6 miles | 2008 | |
| William Taylor House | 0.9 miles | 1979 | |
| W. Bush-Dykes House | 1.3 miles | 1979 | |
| J. Quisenberry House | 1.3 miles | 1979 | |
 | Providence Baptist Church | 1.7 miles | 1976 |
| Tarleton Chiles House | 2.2 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003591 in Record Group 79. |
| Clark County | All 62 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.