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One of 75 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stephen Murphy House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Murphy, Stephen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Off KY 39, Little Hickman, 40475
- When was it listed? June 1983
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
- Census division. Cottonburg-Valley View
- National Register reference number. 83002818 - 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
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stephen Murphy House between 1999 and 2015, burning about 53 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DRY BRANCH |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogie Houses and Mill Site | 5.2 miles | 1976 | |
| Newby Country Store | 5.2 miles | 2025 | |
| Taylor House | 5.5 miles | 1989 | |
| Rolling Meadows | 6.6 miles | 1989 | |
| Stephenson House | 7.3 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002818 in Record Group 79. |
| Madison County | All 75 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.