Simpson Log House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Green 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 1464, Webbs, 42743
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Green County MRA
Census division. Donansburg
National Register reference number. 84001526 - 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Simpson Log House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOBB BEND
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	47 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BRAMBLE HU
6 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAM GENTRY
31 March 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Webbs Female Academy	0.5 miles	1984
Chewning House	1.7 miles	1984
Montgomery House	1.9 miles	1984
Montgomery's Mill	3.4 miles	1984
Sandidge House	3.6 miles	1984
Woodward House	4.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001526 in Record Group 79.
Green County	All 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.