Thomas House

Built in 1835. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Thomas House, located near Mulberry, Kentucky in Shelby County, Kentucky was built between 1830 and 1840. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Thomas House (Mulberry, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1835.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 43, .25 mi. E of Mulberry--Eminence Pike, Mulberry, 40057
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Christianburg
When was it built? 1835
National Register reference number. 88002857 - 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thomas House between 1999 and 2013, burning about 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
16 August 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 February 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOODY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Bird Octagonal Mule Barn	0.7 miles	1988
John C. Brown House	0.8 miles	1988
Bird's Nest	1.0 miles	1988
William J. Thomas House	1.1 miles	1988
Snook House	1.5 miles	1988
Swindler House	1.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002857 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 142 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.