Marrowbone Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Marrowbone Historic District is a 1.7-acre (0.69 ha) historic district in Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Marrowbone Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cumberland County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 90, Marrowbone, 42717
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. district
Census division. Burkesville
National Register reference number. 83004048 - 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

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Marrowbone Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,290 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
29 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	156 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	205 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marrowbone, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	$15,000	The Cumberland County emergency manager reported a building wall collapsed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	$1,000	A large tree limb was blown on to a car.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	$1,000	A swing set was blown over and tree branches were downed.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	-	A tree was blown down over part of Mud Camp Road.
February 2021	Flash Flood	Marrowbone	-	There was flooding on Gray Gap Road at Turner Branch Road.
May 2021	Flash Flood	Marrowbone	-	Kentucky 90 was closed due to flooding around Marrowbone.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	-	A Cumberland County law enforcement official reported trees down in the area.
May 2010	Flood	Marrowbone	-	Kentucky 90 was closed due to high water.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Marrowbone	-	A NWS COOP-Observer measured one inch of rain in 30 minutes.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	-	Many tree branches were downed at Marrowbone. COOP Observer estimated wind speeds of 55 to 60 mph.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marrowbone	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Marrowbone	-	Three county roads were closed in the area due to high water.
February 2009	Hail	Marrowbone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	James Baker House	7.3 miles	2006
	Coe House	7.9 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cumberland County	All 3 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.