Michael Wallace House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Michael Wallace House on Broadus Branch Rd. in Garrard County, Kentucky, near Kirksville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Michael Wallace House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 67 National Register listings published here for Garrard 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wallace, Michael, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Broadus Branch Rd., Kirksville, 40461
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Census division. Paint Lick
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002783 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Michael Wallace House between 1999 and 2008, burning about 65 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	4
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 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
22 October 2008	Recreation and ceremony	18 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 Michael Wallace 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

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
Isaac Metcalf House	0.9 miles	1985
Paint Lick School	1.6 miles	2007
Calico & Brown General Store	1.6 miles	1985
Paint Lick Commercial District	1.7 miles	2014
William Miller Place	1.7 miles	1985
Walker House	2.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002783 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.