BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wheelwright Commercial District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. Main St., Wheelwright, 41669
- When was it listed? November 1980
- Category. district
- Census division. Wheelwright-Weeksbury
- National Register reference number. 80001527 - 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
259 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Wheelwright Commercial District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21,598 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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 | 109 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONG FORK VEIRGE |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 396 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1,500 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 165 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RILEYS BRANCH |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheelwright, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheelwright | $7,000 | Several trees were blown down on Highways 979 and 122. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Wheelwright | - | An IFLOWS gage at Right Beaver measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.14 inches. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wheelwright | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001527 in Record Group 79. |
| Floyd County | All 15 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.