Richard Salmon 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. Salmon, Richard, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KY 112, 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. 88002722 - 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

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Richard Salmon House between 1998 and 2017, burning about 593 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richard Salmon House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	St. Charles Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working 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

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
Cranor School	4.9 miles	1989
Dawson Springs Historic District	5.0 miles	1988
Dawson Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase)	5.0 miles	1998
Darby House, The	5.1 miles	1997
Beulah Lodge	6.7 miles	1989
Hotel Earlington	7.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002722 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.
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.