Davis Newman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Newman, Davis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of Spears, Spears, 40515
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Jessamine County MRA
Census division. Nicholasville
National Register reference number. 84001669 - 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Davis Newman House between 2001 and 2017, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2008	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGHWATER LN
9 October 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAMP DANIEL BOONE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Jessamine County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Davis Newman House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
	Ambrose Fault Vein	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Jessamine 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
A. Grubb House	0.3 miles	1984
McClure-Shelby House	2.3 miles	1978
Lewis Y. Martin House	2.7 miles	2008
James G. Martin House	2.9 miles	1984
Federal House on Hickman Creek	3.0 miles	1985
John Hunter House	3.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001669 in Record Group 79.
Jessamine County	All 73 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.
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.