Carpenter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Carpenter House located on Kentucky Highway 148 one mile south of Clark Station, Shelby County, Kentucky, was constructed during 1843 - 1848, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Built in antebellum vernacular style, it incorporates stone, weatherboard, metal, and brick materials into its construction.”
Wikipedia article Carpenter House (Clark Station, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 148, 1 mi. S of Clark Station, Clark Station, 40067
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Simpsonville
National Register reference number. 88002928 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carpenter House in 2005, burning about 5 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

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
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Grasslands	1.2 miles	1977
Pemberton Farm	1.4 miles	1988
Scearce-Roush House	1.4 miles	2017
Lincoln Institute Complex	3.0 miles	1988
Wright House	3.1 miles	1988
Whitney M. Young Jr. Birthplace	3.5 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002928 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.