BlockFrom the record
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Green County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Philpot House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. KY 729, Exie, 42743
- When was it listed? April 1985
- Category. building
- Also known as. Green County MRA
- Census division. Donansburg
- National Register reference number. 85000907 - 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
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Philpot House between 1998 and 2017, burning about 364 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.3 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 March 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FROGGETT FIRE |
Storms near this property
14 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exie, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exie | $15,000 | A power pole snapped, a tree blew down, and a trampoline blew away from a property. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exie | - | There was an electric pole down at US 68 and Matney Road. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Exie | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported north of Exie. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Exie | - | Golf ball sized hail was observed near the intersection of Kentucky Route 68 and Mell Road in Exie. |
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exie | - | A National Weather Service storm survey team determined the damage along US 68, in the Thurlow community, was straight line wind damage of 70 mph. There was roof damage to 2 homes, slight uplift of roof panels to one barn, and a couple of older rotted trees knocked down. All of the damage was facing off to the northeast. ||NWS drone video confirmed all the damage was straight line winds, and very isolated to around 4765 Edmonton Rd (US 68), in the Thurlow community, about 5 miles southwest of Greensburg. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exie | - | There were tree limbs partially blocking Matney Road. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Exie | - | The Green County emergency manager reported that the intersection of Kentucky Highway 68 and C. Garrison Road was closed due to high water. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Exie | - | The Green County emergency manager relayed a report that a measured 3.85 inches of rain fell in a two hour period near the small town of Exie. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Exie | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Exie | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Exie | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Exie | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Exie | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exie | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napoleon Wallace House | 2.8 miles | 1984 | |
| David Edwards House | 3.3 miles | 1984 | |
| Whitlock Log Cabin | 3.7 miles | 1984 | |
| Edwards House | 3.9 miles | 1984 | |
| Woodward House | 5.3 miles | 1984 | |
| Sandidge House | 6.4 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85000907 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.
- 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.