W. W. Kington House

Built in 1911 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Kington House, at 109 Crooked Street in Mortons Gap, Kentucky, is a historic house built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1988, and is part of the Hopkins County Multiple Property Submission (MPS).”
Wikipedia article W.W. Kington House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Hopkins County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1911, Italianate 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Kington, W. W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 109 Crooked St., Mortons Gap, 42440
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hopkins County MPS
Census division. Madisonville
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 88002724 - 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

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of W. W. Kington House between 1997 and 2017, burning about 621 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	B & K SAWMILL
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LABOR
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	74 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCK SPARK
27 June 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITECITY
24 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EARLINGTON

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this property

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mortons Gap, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
April 2008	Flood	Mortons Gap	$150,000	Near Mortons Gap, the entrance to the southbound Pennyrile Parkway on-ramp was under two to three feet of water. Highway 813 at Mortons Gap was under an inch of water. Countywide, many roads were covered with water. Roads were closed, especially in the north portion of the county. Highway 109 was closed for a few days. Main Street in Madisonville was partially closed. Flooding caused significant damage to at least three businesses in a mall in Madisonville. Up to six inches of water on the floor of a grocery store damaged inventory. Additional damage to inventory occurred when power was cut to the mall for safety reasons. The mall parking lot was flooded up to a depth of three feet, and a car was submerged over the headlights.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	$50,000	The roof was blown off a house in Mortons Gap. Around White Plains, trees were blown down on some roads. Utility poles were snapped in Nortonville.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	$30,000	A trailer was overturned near Mortons Gap.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Mortons Gap	$10,000	One foot of water was flowing over Flat Creek Road, making it impassable. There was some flooding of a nearby logging business.
May 2009	Heavy Rain	Mortons Gap	$10,000	In Madisonville, stormwater ditches became clogged with debris, causing local flooding of yards, streets, and some outbuildings. In one neighborhood, water was up to seven inches deep in a garage. Several roads near Hanson were briefly under water. At Mortons Gap, water was flowing across U.S. Highway 41.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	$5,000	Power lines were blown down.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Mortons Gap	$2,000	Tree limbs were blown down, along with small signs. This very brief tornado, which was witnessed by trained spotters, contained estimated winds of 70 mph.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	$1,000	Tree limbs were down on a road.
January 2021	Flood	Mortons Gap	-	Three inches of water covered Highway 813 near exit 108 of the Pennyrile Parkway / Interstate 69.
October 2017	Flood	Mortons Gap	-	Flat Creek Road off of Highway 813 was flooded.
April 2016	Funnel Cloud	Mortons Gap	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud just west of Mortons Gap.
July 2016	Flood	Mortons Gap	-	The on-ramp to Interstate 69 from Highway 813 near Mortons Gap was under 6 to 12 inches of water.
March 2015	Flood	Mortons Gap	-	Near Mortons Gap, a southbound ramp of the Pennyrile Parkway interchange was closed due to flooding. Numerous roads were flooded and closed elsewhere around the county, including State Route 270.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Mortons Gap	-	Minor flooding was reported.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	-	At Mortons Gap, a trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 MPH. Several trees were down just east of White Plains along Highway 62.
April 2018	Funnel Cloud	Mortons Gap	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Mortons Gap	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mortons Gap	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Mortons Gap	-	no account filed

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
Hotel Earlington	3.2 miles	1988
Oakmoor	3.2 miles	1988
Frederick Miller House	4.4 miles	1988
James E. Slaton House	4.6 miles	1988
Madisonville Armory	5.3 miles	2002
Chittenden P. Lyon Jr. House	6.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002724 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.