BlockFrom the record
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stone Cellar on Cabin Creek
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Address. Cabin Creek Rd., Tollesboro, 41179
- When was it listed? January 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
- Census division. Tollesboro
- National Register reference number. 87000168 - 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 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Stone Cellar on Cabin Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CROOKED CREEK |
| 5 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CABIN CREEK |
| 30 April 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CABIN CREEK RD |
| 2 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stone Cellar on Cabin Creek: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabin Creek Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tollesboro, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 17 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Tornado (F3) | Tollesboro | 17 hurt, $5,000,000 | The tornado touched down to the southeast of Maysville, continuing east-southeast into Lewis County. The greatest damage occurred in the Heron Hill area in western Lewis County. Seventeen people were injured in Lewis County. 21 homes were destroyed, 10 homes sustained major damage and 17 homes received minor damage. Numerous barns, buildings and garages were also damaged or destroyed. The tornado appeared to skip across parts of Mason and Lewis Counties. Tornado damage ended four miles to the southeast of Vanceburg. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Tollesboro | $350,000 | Numerous roads were washed out due to flash flooding. In addition there were multiple water rescues from homes. At least three mobile homes and a grocery store were swept off their foundation. Major damage occurred to residences, businesses, vehicles, and roads across southern portions of the county. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $25,000 | A roof was blown off a barn and numerous trees were knocked down. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Tollesboro | $20,000 | Several homes and mobile homes received minor structural damage. Three mobile homes were lifted off of their foundations. A barn was destroyed and another was damaged. Several trees and large branches were also downed. A truck was also damaged. ||Most of the damage was in Tollesboro off of route 10 in the Hampton Lane Road area. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $15,000 | Damage occurred to the roofs of several homes. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $10,000 | A barn was blown down and a few tobacco barns sustained minor roof and siding damage. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $5,000 | A tree fell onto a car. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Tollesboro | $5,000 | This flooding is a continuation of the earlier flash flooding. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $5,000 | Trees and power poles were knocked down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $5,000 | Numerous trees down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Tollesboro area. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $4,000 | Numerous trees were downed. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $3,000 | Trees and power poles were downed across the western part of the county. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $2,000 | Numerous large tree branches were downed in the Tollesboro area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down by straight line winds in the vicinity of the tornado in Tollesboro. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $1,000 | A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $1,000 | A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tollesboro | $250 | Siding on a metal barn was damaged. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Tollesboro | - | High water was reported on Katelyn Lane. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Tollesboro | - | Flooding issues lingered in the Tollesboro area from the heavy rain that fell earlier in the afternoon and evening. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Tollesboro | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Tollesboro | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cabin Creek Covered Bridge | 2.1 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000168 in Record Group 79. |
| Lewis County | All 5 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.