Amos Shinkle Summer Residence

Built in 1866. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1866.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Shinkle, Amos, Summer Residence - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. U.S. 25, South Ft. Mitchell, 41017
When was it listed? April 1983
Category. building
Census division. Covington
When was it built? 1866
National Register reference number. 83002806 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Amos Shinkle Summer Residence between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
19 March 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERBOURNE

Every fire recorded in Kenton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Amos Shinkle Summer Residence: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Constance Yard	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 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
Dixie Highway Historic District	0.2 miles	1988
Erlanger Proper Subdivision Historic District	1.5 miles	2002
Beechwood Historic District	1.6 miles	1989
Highland Cemetery Historic District	1.9 miles	1989
Old Fort Mitchell Historic District	2.2 miles	1989
Kruempelman Farmhouse	2.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002806 in Record Group 79.
Kenton County	All 76 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.