BlockFrom the record
One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ransom House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1842 Messmer Rd., Crittenden, 41092
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Boone County MRA
- Census division. Walton
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 88003284 - 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
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ransom House between 2002 and 2004, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Verona High School | 1.0 miles | 2002 |
| George-Vest House | 2.4 miles | 2000 | |
 | Samuel Hind House | 3.3 miles | 1990 |
| South Main Street Historic District | 3.7 miles | 2005 | |
 | Edwards House | 4.0 miles | 1989 |
 | Chandler House | 4.0 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003284 in Record Group 79. |
| Boone County | All 101 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.