BlockFrom the record
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Barren County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Franklin Settle House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Settle, Franklin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. KY 252 and KY 255, Rocky Hill, 42141
- When was it listed? May 1983
- Category. building
- Also known as. Barren County MRA
- Census division. Rocky Hill
- National Register reference number. 83002545 - 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 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Settle House between 1998 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
| 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 |
| 24 November 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOATMAN RD |
Storms near this property
5 since 1997Regional 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 |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Octagon Cottage | 2.6 miles | 1983 | |
| Benjamin Martin House | 3.1 miles | 1983 | |
| Old Zion Methodist Church | 3.2 miles | 1983 | |
| Charles Penn Edmunds House | 4.3 miles | 1983 | |
| John Mayfield House | 5.9 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002545 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.