BlockFrom the record
One of 75 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Moberly House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 0.3 mi. N of Old KY 52, Moberly, 40475
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Madison County MRA
- Census division. Waco-Bybee
- National Register reference number. 88003315 - 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
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Moberly House between 1998 and 2014, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GOODLOE CHAPEL RD FIRE |
| 31 August 1999 | Smoking | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SNOWDEN |
| 10 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 December 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 November 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moberly House: 2 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hog Jowl Mountain Roadcut | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Portwood Clay | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moberly, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moberly | - | A metal shed was blown off of its foundation. Shingles were also missing from the house. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cornelison Pottery | 2.4 miles | 1978 |
| Shearer Store | 4.0 miles | 1990 | |
| Griggs House | 4.9 miles | 1989 | |
| Viney Fork Baptist Church | 5.0 miles | 1989 | |
| John Moberly House | 5.8 miles | 1983 | |
| Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church | 6.0 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003315 in Record Group 79. |
| Madison County | All 75 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.