Robert Steele House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Steele, Robert, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Troy Rd., Keene, 40390
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Census division. Wilmore
National Register reference number. 83002801 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Robert Steele House in 2006, burning about 5 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	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
4 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keene, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	$10,000	A fire station sustained roof damage and trees were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	There were multiple trees down from strong winds.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	A Jessamine County law enforcement official reported that trees fell down as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	Trees reported down near Keene.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	no account filed
May 1996	Tornado (F0)	Keene	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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
George and Betty Bryan House	2.1 miles	1984
Ebenezer Presbyterian Church	2.1 miles	1983
Stone House on Brooklyn Hill	2.3 miles	1983
Young House	2.8 miles	1984
Kenyon Avenue Historic District	2.9 miles	1994
Canewood Farm	2.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002801 in Record Group 79.
Jessamine County	All 73 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.