John C. Allen House

Built in 1803 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Allen House, on Kentucky Route 61 in Green County, Kentucky, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Summersville, Kentucky, was built in 1803. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article John C. Allen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Green County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1803, 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.
Listed as. Allen, John C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KY 61, Summersville, 42743
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Green County MRA
Census division. Summersville
When was it built? 1803
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 85000917 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of John C. Allen House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARSHALL RIDGE ROAD
9 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAMPBELLSVILLE HWY
31 March 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summersville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	$1,200,000	Eight houses were destroyed. Two houses had major damage. Eight other homes had minor damage. Thirteen barns were damaged or destroyed. Six businesses had damage. An unoccupied mobile home was flipped over a house and into a tree. Numerous trees and power lines were down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds near Summersville.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	A barn roof was damaged by strong winds on Marshall Ridge Road.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	Trees were reported down between Summersville and Greensburg.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	The public reported a measured gust of 70 mph.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	A law enforcement official reported that a tree fell on Highway 61 in Summersville. Other trees were down in Greensburg from the severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	Two trees were blown down in Summersville.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Summersville	-	Trees were downed.
September 2006	Flash Flood	Summersville	-	Streams were out of their banks and some roadways were flooded.
April 2018	Hail	Summersville	-	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Summersville	-	no account filed

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Francis Cowherd House	under 500 feet	1985
Mears House	0.7 miles	1984
Elmore-Carter House	0.9 miles	1984
Mud Brick House in Greensburg	3.0 miles	2010
Daniel Motley Williams House	3.1 miles	1984
Barrett-Blakeman House	3.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000917 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.