John Arnold House

Built in 1800 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The John Arnold House, located off Kentucky Route 1295 in Garrard County, Kentucky, near Paint Lick, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article John Arnold House (Paint Lick, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 67 National Register listings published here for Garrard County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1800, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Arnold, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off 1295, Paint Lick, 40444
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Census division. Lancaster
When was it built? 1800
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002777 - 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of John Arnold House between 1997 and 2009, burning about 62 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
25 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 February 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 November 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of John Arnold House: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
	Harmony Church Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect
	Price Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paint Lick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Lick	-	Telephone poles were broken off at 1792 Kirksville Road.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Paint Lick	-	Numerous trees were down on the Garrard County side of the Garrard-Madison county line. The debris pattern indicated a tornado touchdown.

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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

6 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
Smith House	1.7 miles	1985
Walker House	2.5 miles	1985
Michael Wallace House	2.6 miles	1983
Paint Lick Presbyterian Church	3.0 miles	1985
Isaac Metcalf House	3.2 miles	1985
Paint Lick School	3.6 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002777 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garrard County	All 67 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.
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.
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.