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
Spring House at Flat Fork
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. KY 161, Flat Fork, 41055
- When was it listed? October 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky TR
- Census division. Mays Lick
- National Register reference number. 87002051 - 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 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Spring House at Flat Fork 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May's Lick Negro School | 1.6 miles | 2018 | |
| Springhouse in Mays Lick | 1.6 miles | 1987 | |
 | Mays Lick Consolidated School | 1.8 miles | 1982 |
 | Poague House | 1.9 miles | 1987 |
| Stone Barn on Lee's Creek | 2.5 miles | 1987 | |
| Helena United Methodist Church | 2.8 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002051 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.