BlockFrom the record
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stone Barn on Lee's Creek
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Address. US 68, Mays Lick, 41055
- When was it listed? January 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
- Census division. Mays Lick
- National Register reference number. 87000200 - 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
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Stone Barn on Lee's Creek in 2016, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PLEASANT VALLEY RD. |
Storms near this property
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mays Lick, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $10,000 | The 67 mph gust was measured at the Fleming-Mason County Airport. A barn roof sustained damage and utility poles were also knocked down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $4,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed along Laytham Pike. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down along U.S. 68 near Mays Lick. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down along Weaver Road. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $3,000 | Several trees and limbs were downed. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Mays Lick | $2,000 | Multiple roads were closed due to heavy rainfall. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $1,000 | Several limbs and small trees were downed. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mays Lick | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Mays Lick | $1,000 | A few roads were reported closed due to high water. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Mays Lick | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Flood | Mays Lick | - | High water was reported on State Route 419 and a few other roads across southeast portions of the county. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mays Lick | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mays Lick Consolidated School | 0.8 miles | 1982 |
 | Poague House | 0.8 miles | 1987 |
| May's Lick Negro School | 1.1 miles | 2018 | |
| Springhouse in Mays Lick | 1.2 miles | 1987 | |
| Spring House at Flat Fork | 2.5 miles | 1987 | |
| Helena United Methodist Church | 4.0 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000200 in Record Group 79. |
| Mason County | All 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.
- 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.