Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
“The Van Dyke House near Rivals, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The county that surrounds the Van Dyke House is Spencer County.”
Wikipedia article Van Dyke House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Van Dyke House between 2005 and 2011, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | INDIAN RIDGE FIRE |
| 8 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rivals, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2018 | Flood | Rivals | - | High water flooded road and bridge at the intersection of Little Mount Road, Haley Road, and Figg Store Road. |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Beechland | 3.6 miles | 1976 |
 | L.W. Ross House | 5.3 miles | 1992 |
| Bourne-Anderson House | 5.3 miles | 1977 | |
| Perry Shelburne House | 5.4 miles | 1992 | |
 | Minor Chapel A. M. E. Church | 5.4 miles | 1992 |
 | All Saints Church | 5.4 miles | 1992 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000181 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Spencer County | All 14 listed properties in this county. |
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