Joseph Fields Burgess House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 4 structuress, 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Burgess, Joseph Fields, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 25 and SW corner of SR 608, Sadieville, 40370
When was it listed? November 1984
Category. building
Census division. Sadieville
National Register reference number. 84000368 - 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Fields Burgess House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Debris and open burning	2
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
3 April 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LEANING OAK
9 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOCUST FIRE
20 October 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sadieville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 2025	Flash Flood	Sadieville	1 killed, $20,000	On February 17, a man was found deceased in his truck off of Davis Road, near Sadieville. It is believed by the coroner's office that the man's truck was washed off the road and into a ravine by floodwater late on February 15, but the exact time is unknown. Value and damage to vehicle is unknown.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Sadieville	$500,000	30 to 40 homes were damaged by flood waters, one home had 4 feet of water. People were trapped in vehicles by rising water.
February 2021	Flood	Sadieville	-	Luke Road at Eagle Creek was impassable due to high water.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Sadieville	-	Flooding was reported on Eagle Bend Drive.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	Trees were reported down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	A Scott County official reported trees down due to severe thunderstorm winds over roads in Sadieville.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	A public report was received that several trees were down in the area as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Sadieville	-	The local media reported that two boys were rescued after creek waters rose quickly on the Little Indiana Branch in the town of Sadieville.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	A tree was blown down.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	Large limbs and other debris were blocking roads.
April 2018	Hail	Sadieville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Sadieville	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Sadieville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sadieville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Sadieville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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

1 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
	Sadieville Historic District	3.3 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000368 in Record Group 79.
Scott County	All 83 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.