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Dabney Post Office

Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Dabney Post Office is a historic post office located on Kentucky Route 39 in Dabney, Kentucky. The one-story wood-frame building served as Dabney's community store and post office.”

Wikipedia article Dabney Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1900.

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 39, Dabney
  • When was it listed? August 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Pulaski County MRA
  • Census division. Somerset
  • When was it built? 1900
  • National Register reference number. 84001954 - 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dabney Post Office between 1998 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
7 April 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARE ROAD FIRE
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRUNDY
19 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOODHAVEN DRIVE

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dabney, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDabney$5,000According to reports received by WKYT and the Commonwealth Journal in Somerset, KY, a residential trailer located on Hwy 1317 three miles northwest of Shopville sustained major damage due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Dabney$2,000A small tornado downed trees, damaged crops, and blew down a sign.
May 2017Flash FloodDabney$1,000Flash flooding of a small stream occurred along KY Hwy 39, causing the road to be covered with flowing water. Two vehicles became stranded while attempting to drive through the flooded roadway.
May 2017FloodDabney$1,000Kentucky Hwy 39 near Dabney was closed for a period of time due to flooding.
April 2015FloodDabney$1,000Several inches of water were observed flowing across North Harper Rd.
December 2015FloodDabney$1,000An inch of water was seen flowing across the corner of Pine Hill Road and Barnes Road.
December 2015FloodDabney$1,000An inch of water was seen flowing across the road between Barnesburg Road and Welborn road.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDabney$100The Pulaski County Mesonet station in the community of Dabney reported a 56 mph gust.
January 2022Heavy RainDabney-The Kentucky Mesonet station in Pulaski County (DABN) measured 4.19 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
March 2021Heavy RainDabney-The Kentucky Mesonet station northeast of Somerset measured 2.04 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindDabney-A tree was blown down and onto a house.
September 2009Flash FloodDabney-Six to eight inches of water was flowing into one lane of Highway 39 in the Nelson Valley area.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Shopville Elementary School3.9 miles2025
Buck-Mercer House4.0 miles1984
James-Hansford House4.3 miles1985
James-Owens House4.5 miles1985
Evans House5.1 miles1985
Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument5.4 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001954 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski CountyAll 43 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.