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Photograph of Burnside Methodist Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Burnside Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Burnside Methodist Church is a historic church off U.S. 27 in Burnside, Kentucky. It was built in 1907 and added to the National Register in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Burnside Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off U.S. 27, Burnside, 42519
  • When was it listed? August 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Pulaski County MRA
  • Census division. Burnside
  • National Register reference number. 85001836 - 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

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Burnside Methodist Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,794 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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
16 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
29 June 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
23 June 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Burnside Methodist Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tateville MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnside, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBurnside1 hurtA person was injured by thunderstorm wind gusts in Burnside.
August 2003LightningBurnside1 hurtOne man was injured when he was struck by lightning.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$10,000There were numerous trees blown down in the Burnside and Bronson area.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBurnside$10,000The metal roof was blown off of a business building.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$5,000A couple of trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnside$5,000There were numerous large limbs being torn out trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBurnside$2,000Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000The amateur radio community reported a tree blown down onto vehicle along Circle Lane in Burnside.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000A tree was blown down along Homestead Drive.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000A tree was blown down along County Rd.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Reports of several trees down near the Burnside community.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A couple of trees were blown down along a small stretch of Highway 27 near General Burnside State Park.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A tree was blown on the third hole of the General Burnside State Park Golf Course.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A tree was blown down along Lakeshore Drive.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 50 mph in the community of Burnside.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Power outages were reported in Burnside.
June 2009Funnel CloudBurnside-A member of the public reported seeing a funnel cloud in Burnside.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Tree down on residential property on Highland Avenue.
February 2017HailBurnside-no account filed
July 2008HailBurnside-no account filed
April 2008HailBurnside-no account filed
April 2006HailBurnside-no account filed
June 2006HailBurnside-no account filed
June 2004HailBurnside-no account filed

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
Burnside Historic District0.1 miles1984
Boland House0.4 miles1984
Burnside Lodge0.5 miles1984
Beatty-Newell House0.8 miles1985
US Post Office-Bronston0.9 miles1985
Robinson Mill6.6 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001836 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.