Charles Penn Edmunds House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Charles Penn Edmunds House, on Rocky Hill Road / Kentucky Route 1297 in Barren County, Kentucky near Beckton, is a Federal-style brick house which was built in c.1836-37. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Charles Penn Edmunds House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Barren County · listed in 1983 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Edmunds, Charles Penn, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Becton, Beckton, 42141
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Barren County MRA
Census division. Rocky Hill
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002530 - 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Charles Penn Edmunds House between 1998 and 2014, burning about 28 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKY FIRE
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 November 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Barren 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
Octagon Cottage	1.7 miles	1983
John Mayfield House	2.2 miles	1983
Old Zion Methodist Church	2.4 miles	1983
Gullian Gerig's Mill	4.2 miles	1987
Franklin Settle House	4.3 miles	1983
Glasgow OMS #9	4.7 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barren County	All 37 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.