Richard Skees House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Skees, Richard, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jerome Peerce Rd., off KY 1823, White Mills, 42740
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Sonora
National Register reference number. 88001780 - 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Richard Skees House between 1999 and 2013, burning about 322 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	7
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 84
6 September 1999	Smoking	201 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Smoking	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	AMISH ROAD
17 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 June 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EASTVIEW BARRENS FIRE
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Richard Skees House: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
No. 3 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Big Clifty Sandstone Exposure	Silica	Prospect
Eastview Abandoned Sandstone Pit	Silica	Past Producer
Railroad Overpass Sandstone Outcrop	Silica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Mills, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2003: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	$8,000	A 200 year old maple tree was blown on to a car.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Chenault House	0.5 miles	1988
William Sprigg House	0.6 miles	1989
Melton House	2.4 miles	1988
Dr. Abel House	2.8 miles	1988
Dr. Clyde Carroll House	2.8 miles	1988
William Bland House	2.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001780 in Record Group 79.
Hardin County	All 89 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.