Mathias Willis Store House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Mathias Willis Store House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Edmonson County · listed in 1987 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Willis, Mathias, Store House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Cummins Rd., Windyville, 42210
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
Census division. Brownsville North
National Register reference number. 87000172 - 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

31 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mathias Willis Store House between 2000 and 2018, burning about 421 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	15
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SPINKS CEMETERY FIRE
23 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SLEEPY HOLLOW
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	THE BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mathias Willis Store House: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Gully Clay	Clay	Prospect
	Vincent Prospect Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Prospect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windyville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Windyville	$10,000	An outbuilding and a home damaged in Windyville.
February 2019	Flash Flood	Windyville	-	Road was closed due to flooding.
December 2007	Flood	Windyville	-	High water from heavy rains made Kentucky highway 655 impassable between mile markers two and three.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Windyville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Reed-Dorsey House	5.0 miles	1986
	Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse	7.7 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Edmonson County	All 21 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.