Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“Octagon Cottage is an octagon house in rural Barren County, Kentucky, near Rocky Hill, Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Octagon Cottage (Rocky Hill, Kentucky), 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 Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Octagon Cottage between 1998 and 2014, burning about 10 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 | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 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 |
| 24 November 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MILLSTOWN |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Hill, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A tree was reported down on the 5000 block of Finney Road in Glasgow. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A tree blew down on Joe Morris Road near Finney Road. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A large cedar tree fell near the intersection of Settles Road and Highway 252. |
| January 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Rocky Hill | - | A short-lived EF-1 tornado destroyed a well built barn and knocked down several trees along Finney Road, located a mile east of the small town of Rocky Hill. |
| March 1997 | Hail | Rocky Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Zion Methodist Church | 1.4 miles | 1983 | |
| Charles Penn Edmunds House | 1.7 miles | 1983 | |
| Franklin Settle House | 2.6 miles | 1983 | |
| John Mayfield House | 3.7 miles | 1983 | |
| Benjamin Martin House | 5.2 miles | 1983 | |
| Gullian Gerig's Mill | 5.9 miles | 1987 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002540 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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