Mine No. 5 Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Mine No. 5 Store is a historic department store located in Van Lear, Kentucky, United States. The two-story, wood-frame building was constructed in 1918 by Consolidated Coal Company.”
Wikipedia article Mine No. 5 Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 302, Van Lear, 41265
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Johnson County MRA
Census division. Paintsville
National Register reference number. 88003172 - 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

210 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Mine No. 5 Store between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,992 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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	73
Arson/incendiarism	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Recreation and ceremony	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROUTE 302
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARBER BRANCH III

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mine No. 5 Store: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Levisa Fork Sandstone Pit	Silica	Past Producer
East Point Roadcut	Clay	Prospect
Greasy Creek Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Lear, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 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
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	West Van Lear	$20,000	A tree was blown down and onto a home in the West Van Lear community, in addition to large tree limbs being blow down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	West Van Lear	$3,000	Power lines downed.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Ben Mollett Cabin	2.4 miles	1989
Paintsville Country Club	3.3 miles	1989
Meade Memorial Gymnasium	4.4 miles	1989
Archer House	4.9 miles	1989
Tobe Wiley House	4.9 miles	1989
Webb House	5.0 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 36 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.