Flat Gap School

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. KY 689 near jct. with KY 1092, Flat Gap, 41219
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Johnson County MRA
Census division. Flatgap
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 88003187 - 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

122 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Flat Gap School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,999 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROSS CREEK
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	M SALYERS ROAD II
20 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CANTRELL'S CREEK
21 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STONECOAL RD.
9 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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 Flat Gap School: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cantrill Branch Shale	Clay	Prospect
Flat Gap Shale	Clay	Prospect
Volga Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working 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
Lloyd Hamilton Mott House	3.6 miles	1989
Jeff Bond House	3.8 miles	1989
Williams House	3.9 miles	1989
David McKenzie Log Cabin	4.0 miles	1982
Stambaugh House	4.8 miles	1989
Stambaugh Church of Christ	5.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003187 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.
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.