Applegate-Fisher House

Built in 1846 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Applegate-Fisher House, at 404 Elm St. in West Point, Kentucky, was built in 1846. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Applegate-Fisher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1846, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Applegate--Fisher House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 404 Elm St., West Point, 40177
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. West Point
When was it built? 1846
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88001787 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Applegate-Fisher House between 1997 and 2016, burning about 508 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POINTE BLVD FIRE
3 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEAVERS RUN FIRE
11 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Applegate-Fisher House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kosmos Cement Division	Stone	Producer
	Kosmosdale Pit	Stone	Producer

Every working 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
Ditto-Prewitt House	under 500 feet	1988
Kentucky and Indiana Bank	under 500 feet	1988
West Point Historic District	under 500 feet	1996
Abraham Ditto House	0.1 miles	1988
West Point Hotel	0.1 miles	1988
James Young House and Inn	0.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001787 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.