Poague House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Poague House is a three-bay, hall-parlor, dry-stone house built in the first half of the 19th century by future Kentucky Governor, Thomas Metcalfe for William Poague. The ashlar stone construction is of upper Ordovician fossiliferous limestone.”
Wikipedia article Poague House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason 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

Address. Parker Ln., 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
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 87000210 - 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Poague House between 2014 and 2016, burning about 20 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
Recreation and ceremony	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.
11 November 2014	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REID ST.

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Mason 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Stone Barn on Lee's Creek	0.8 miles	1987
Mays Lick Consolidated School	0.9 miles	1982
May's Lick Negro School	1.1 miles	2018
Springhouse in Mays Lick	1.2 miles	1987
Spring House at Flat Fork	1.9 miles	1987
Helena United Methodist Church	3.1 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.