Samuel Hieatt House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Samuel Hieatt House is a Greek Revival house built around 1850 approximately five miles north of Smithfield, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 due to its architectural significance as an outstanding example of Greek Revival style in Henry County.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Hieatt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hieatt, Samuel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Smithfield on Hieatt Rd., Smithfield, 40068
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Census division. Eminence
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82001569 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Hieatt House between 2000 and 2014, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
20 July 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2001	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL RUN
15 March 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithfield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2004	Tornado (F2)	Smithfield	2 hurt, $2,500,000	The tornado first touched down IN an open area east of Smithfield in southwest Henry County. It then moved east and crossed highway 55 north of Eminence. The tornado reached its maximum intensity as it moved between U.S. 421 and the Eminence-Point Pleasant Road. The tornado finally crossed Sweeney Lane and weakened or lifted. South of the tornado path, straight line winds caused some structural damage along with widespread tree damage. Twenty-five homes were destroyed in the storm, and 326 others received some degree of damage.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	$40,000	A Henry County fire department official reported that numerous trees were down along with some structural damage to barns, roofs, homes and outbuildings.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	$10,000	A CO-OP observer reported that trees were down, and structural damage was near East Smithfield Road and Giltner Road.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	There were trees down in Smithfield.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	There were trees and power lines down in Smithfield. Pea sized hail was also found in the area.
November 2005	Hail	Smithfield	-	Wind gust also reported 50 mph gusts.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	Trees were downed.
May 2016	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Callaway-Goodridge-Robertson Farm	2.5 miles	2010
Highlands	3.7 miles	1979
Thomas Smith House	4.8 miles	1978
Thompson House	4.8 miles	1987
Robert Ricketts House	4.8 miles	1978
New Castle Historic Commercial District	4.9 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001569 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 13 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.