BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Stone House on Plum Creek
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Intersection of KY 1060 and KY 1319, Whitfield, 40071
- When was it listed? January 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
- Census division. West Spencer
- National Register reference number. 87000213 - 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
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Stone House on Plum Creek between 1999 and 2010, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MARKWELL RD. FIRE |
| 20 March 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MASTERS LANE FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Beechland | 6.0 miles | 1976 |
| Bourne-Anderson House | 6.4 miles | 1977 | |
 | All Saints Church | 6.9 miles | 1992 |
 | Felix Grundy Stidger House | 6.9 miles | 2016 |
| Taylorsville Historic District | 7.0 miles | 1992 | |
 | Minor Chapel A. M. E. Church | 7.0 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000213 in Record Group 79. |
| Spencer County | All 14 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.