Enoch Smith House

Built in 1811 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Enoch Smith House, on Kentucky Route 1 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, was built around 1808 to 1811. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Enoch Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1811, Federal architecture.

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.
Listed as. Smith, Enoch, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SR 1, Mount Sterling, 40353
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Census division. Mount Sterling
When was it built? 1811
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 80001660 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Enoch Smith House between 2002 and 2018, burning about 15 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SR 486
12 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KIDDVILLE
27 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Miss Emma Hicks Bungalow	0.6 miles	1991
William Chiles House	0.7 miles	1991
Northwest Residential District	1.0 miles	1989
Church of the Ascension	1.0 miles	1979
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Passenger and Baggage Depots	1.1 miles	1991
Mount Sterling Commercial District	1.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001660 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 16 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.