John McGee House

Built in 1790 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The John McGee House, near Cornishville, Kentucky, United States, was built around 1790. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article John McGee House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 70 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1790, Federal architecture.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McGee, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jackson Rd., Cornishville, 40330
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Census division. Salvisa-McAfee
When was it built? 1790
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 83002831 - 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.

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 John McGee House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
	Harrodsburg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Mercer County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornishville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cornishville	-	Trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
McGee House	0.9 miles	1989
McAfee Farm Historic District	1.0 miles	1989
George McAfee House	1.2 miles	1983
Peter Dunn House	1.6 miles	1989
Boise House	1.9 miles	1989
James McAfee House	1.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002831 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mercer County	All 70 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.
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.
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.