Gabriel Jennings House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Hopkins 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. Jennings, Gabriel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KY 70, 1 mi. E of jct. with KY 291, Dawson Springs, 42408
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hopkins County MPS
Census division. Dawson Springs
National Register reference number. 88002720 - 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gabriel Jennings House between 1998 and 2017, burning about 251 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 1998	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG LOG

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawson Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson Springs	$2,000	A large tree was uprooted in Dawson Springs by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Beulah Lodge	4.3 miles	1989
	Bazle Edmiston House	4.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002720 in Record Group 79.
Hopkins County	All 30 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.