Abraham Magowan House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fleming County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Magowan, Abraham, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Maddox Pike, Flemingsburg, 41041
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Census division. Flemingsburg
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002772 - 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

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Abraham Magowan House between 1997 and 2015, burning about 74 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
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
24 June 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 November 1997	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 November 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 November 2015	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PHIPPS LANE
11 November 2014	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REID ST.
31 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this property

56 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flemingsburg, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 32 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2004	Flash Flood	Flemingsburg	$500,000	A ten foot wall of water was flowing down Fleming Creek and caused mass destruction of homes and vehicles in the South Lick area. About four feet of water covered several roads in the Lake Tilton area.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$100,000	Trees and power lines were blown down countywide.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$10,000	Trees were blown down and across Highway 111 at Grange City and Hillsboro.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$10,000	Numerous trees down at the intersection of Highway 57 and Taylors Mill Road.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$6,000	A small barn was blown into Cherry Grove Road at Mill Creek Road. A tree was blown down across Watson Road. All damage was caused by winds estimated at 61 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$5,000	Four power poles were blown down between Old Convict Road and Junction Road.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$5,000	Trees were blown down on Red Bud Road near Ewing at Highways 170 and 559.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$5,000	Large tree limbs and power lines were down.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$5,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$4,000	Four trees were blown down from Flemingsburg towards Dalesburg on Hwy 57 and Cherry Grove Rd.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$3,000	A tree was blown down onto power lines near Flemingsburg.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$2,000	A couple of trees were blown down onto Turner Road.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$2,000	Phone lines were down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$1,000	A tree was blown down along Helena Road near the intersection of KY Hwy 860.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	$500	One large tree limb was blown down at the court house by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	A tree was blown down at 14 East Water Street.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Report of a few trees down along West Water Street near downtown Flemingsburg.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Dispatch reported trees blown down east of Flemingsburg, from Mockingbird Hill Road to Turner Road northwest of Dalesburg.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Dispatch reported trees blown down from the Fleming County Hospital to the east side of Flemingsburg on Crawford Street.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Two trees were blown down.
July 2017	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	A trained spotter observed half dollar sized hail just southwest of Flemingsburg.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees were blown down on Mount Carmel Ave near the courthouse.
April 2015	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	Hail ranging from quarter to half dollar size was reported at Fleming County High School.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees were blown down on Hwy 32 inside Flemingsburg city limits.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Several trees were blown down in Flemingsburg and around the county.
August 2013	Heavy Rain	Flemingsburg	-	The 24 hour rainfall total was 2.25 inches.
April 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	Golf ball size hail reported in Flemingsburg.
April 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	Quarter size hail reported in Flemingsburg.
May 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	The Fleming county EOC reported hail up to one inch in diameter in Flemingsburg.
May 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	Quarter size hail fell at the high school in Flemingsburg.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Flemingsburg	-	Roads were closed county wide due to flood water.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Tree's and large limbs down county wide.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees down on Bypass, East Main Street, and Dye Street.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees down near Flemingsburg.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees down in Flemingsburg. Numerous tree limbs blown down 3 miles south of Flemingsburg.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Flemingsburg	-	Water was flooding over Kentucky Highway 11 and the road was closed.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Trees were blown down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Several trees were blown down by the strong winds.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Severe thunderstorm winds brought several trees down.
July 2000	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	Large tree limbs down near KY 11 and 111.
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	Several trees blown down by strong winds.
April 2015	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
January 1998	Flash Flood	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Flemingsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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

4 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
Flemingsburg Historic District	4.1 miles	1985
Thomas W. Fleming House	4.1 miles	1979
First Presbyterian Church	4.1 miles	1977
Goddard Bridge	7.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002772 in Record Group 79.
Fleming County	All 10 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.