Thomas Metcalf House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Thomas Metcalfe House in Robertson County, Kentucky was the first house of Thomas Metcalfe (1780-1855), 10th governor of Kentucky. The house was built by Metcalfe, a stonemason and building contractor, in c.1810.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Metcalfe House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Robertson 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

Listed as. Metcalf, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 62, Mt. Olivet, 41064
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
Census division. Mount Olivet
Architect. Thomas Metcalfe
National Register reference number. 87000187 - 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Metcalf House between 1999 and 2006, burning about 43 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 November 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 November 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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
	Robertson County Courthouse	3.8 miles	1978
	Johnson Creek Covered Bridge	6.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000187 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Robertson County	All 3 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.