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One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jacob Spears 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. Spears, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SR 1876, Shawhan, 40361
- When was it listed? June 1983
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
- Census division. Paris
- National Register reference number. 83002572 - 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.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Spears House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsh Vein | Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Barite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Quincy Quarries, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jacob Spears Distillery | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | John Tucker House | 1.2 miles | 1995 |
| Cooper's Run Rural Historic District | 1.5 miles | 1998 | |
 | Kiser Station | 1.7 miles | 1977 |
| Elias Rymill House | 1.8 miles | 1983 | |
| Cooper's Run Baptist Church | 2.1 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002572 in Record Group 79. |
| Bourbon County | All 59 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.