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Photograph of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mt. Gilead Baptist Church

Built in 1864 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Gilead Christian Church is a historic church in Haskingsville, Kentucky. It was built in 1864 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”

Wikipedia article Mt. Gilead Christian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Green County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1864, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. KY 767, Haskingsville, 42743
  • When was it listed? August 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Green County MRA
  • Census division. Gresham
  • When was it built? 1864
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 84001519 - 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church between 1998 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARMON ROAD
24 August 1999Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 61N FIRE
5 March 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRAMLETT

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haskingsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2022Flash FloodHaskingsville-Green County Dispatch reported ongoing water rescue near KY SR 1913 (Coburg Road). A vehicle was located in high water, with three people on top of the vehicle. Multiple departments were on scene attempting water rescue. Dispatch received the first call for water recue around 5:18 AM Eastern Time. Damage amount unknown.
June 2018FloodHaskingsville-There was water over Ebenezer Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHaskingsville-A spotter reported several trees down along Columbia Highway near the Green - Adair county line.
May 2010Flash FloodHaskingsville-Kentucky 61 was closed from mile marker 1 to 2 due to high water. KY 487 was also closed at the 1 mile marker due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Green 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Christopher Columbus Christie House1.4 miles1984
Anderson House1.6 miles1984
Keltner House1.6 miles1984
Groves-Cabell House2.6 miles1984
Ebenezer School4.3 miles1984
David Hilliard House6.3 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001519 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Green CountyAll 47 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.