Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“The Benjamin Martin House near Finney, Kentucky was built in 1812 by Benjamin Martin Sr., who lived from 1758 to 1838, and came to Kentucky from Virginia in 1784.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Martin 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
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Benjamin Martin House between 2002 and 2014, burning about 22 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 | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROCKY FIRE |
| 12 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOATMAN RD |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finney, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finney | $20,000 | One hundred feet of metal roofing was ripped off a large boat shelter at a marina on Barren River Lake. Roof and dock damage to the marina office was also sustained, along with uprooted trees in the vicinity. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finney | - | Trees downed south of Mammoth Cave. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Finney | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Settle House | 3.1 miles | 1983 | |
| Old Zion Methodist Church | 5.1 miles | 1983 | |
| Octagon Cottage | 5.2 miles | 1983 | |
| Charles Penn Edmunds House | 7.0 miles | 1983 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002535 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. |
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