J. Quisenberry House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Quisenberry, J., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Quisenberry Rd., Forest Grove, 40391
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Clark County MRA
Census division. Ford-Boonesborough
National Register reference number. 79003596 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of J. Quisenberry House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 31 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	4
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
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
30 October 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of J. Quisenberry House: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Boonesboro Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Storms near this property

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Grove, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Grove	-	There were multiple trees down.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Forest Grove	-	Local broadcast media reported flash flooding on Old Boonesboro Road near Heather Lane. This resulted in the road closing because of high water flowing over it.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Forest Grove	-	Old Boonesboro Rd. and Fieldstone Way were closed due to high water.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest Grove	-	Trees were down across roads in the southwest part of the county.
April 2017	Hail	Forest Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Providence Baptist Church	0.7 miles	1976
W. Bush-Dykes House	0.8 miles	1979
Hodgkins House	0.9 miles	1979
William Taylor House	1.0 miles	1979
Martin House	1.3 miles	1979
Woodford-Fishback-Venable Farm	1.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003596 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.
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.