John A. Hornsby House (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Hornsby, John A., House (Boundary Increase) - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Clore--Jackson Rd., Eminence, 40019
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Shelbyville
National Register reference number. 88003195 - 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of John A. Hornsby House (Boundary Increase) between 2001 and 2014, burning about 138 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	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
20 July 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	97 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2001	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL RUN
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
John A. Hornsby House	under 500 feet	1988
Hornsby Bridge	0.2 miles	1988
Eli Jackson House	0.8 miles	1988
Samuel Booker House	1.1 miles	1988
Benjamin Washburn House	1.1 miles	1977
Helmwood Hall	1.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003195 in Record Group 79.
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.