Salyer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1989 · 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.
Address. Off KY 825 at Asa Creek, Asa, 41222
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Johnson County MRA
Census division. Oil Springs
National Register reference number. 88003181 - 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

211 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Salyer House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,112 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56
Arson/incendiarism	48
Recreation and ceremony	33
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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	COLEMAN BRANCH
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	170 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MIDDLE FORK
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKATING RINK HILL
15 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	VERN HORN DR.
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 July 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GREEN VALLEY RD.

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asa, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 injuries. 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
March 2012	Tornado (EF3)	Asa	2 killed, 7 hurt, $10,000,000	A damage survey team from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Jackson, Kentucky determined that an EF-3 tornado tracked across central Johnson County on March 2, 2012. The tornado had a path width of about 3/4 of a mile and estimated maximum wind speeds of 160 mph. The tornado crossed into Johnson County just west of the Asa community at 708 pm EST and continued east-northeast exiting the county between the Boons Camp and Davisport communities around 725 pm EST. The towns of Hagerhill and West Van Leer were particularly hard hit with several structures totally destroyed. Two fatalities occurred in Johnson county as a result of this tornado. \|\|Ten to twenty houses and a former church had their roofs blown off on a 3 mile stretch of Rt. 302 in West Van Leer. A house was blown onto Hwy 825 in Hagerhill, blocking the roadway. Two different apartment buildings collapsed in Hagerhill as well, one onto Hwy 321 and another on Hwy 1428.

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
Wiley Rice House	2.3 miles	1989
Oil Springs Methodist Church	3.1 miles	1989
Oil Springs High School Gymnasium	3.2 miles	1989
Addison Salyer House	4.0 miles	1989
Daniel Davis House	5.8 miles	1974
Patterson House	6.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003181 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.