Hoffman House

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Route 27 in Lincoln County, Kentucky between Lancaster and Stanford, was built around 1850. During the American Civil War the house "was the base of a large group of Confederates."”
Wikipedia article Hoffman House (Lancaster, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival 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 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 27, Lancaster, 40444
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Census division. Stanford
When was it built? 1850
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002809 - 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hoffman House between 2001 and 2013, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	6
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH FORK
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Hoffman House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
	John Burdette Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Swope-Dudderar House and Mill Site	1.6 miles	1979
Horace Withers House	3.5 miles	1987
Helm-Engleman House	3.9 miles	1983
John Logan House	3.9 miles	1975
Lincoln County Courthouse	4.6 miles	1976
Baughman's Mill and Stanford Railroad Depot	4.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002809 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 22 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.