BlockFrom the record
One of 70 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Peter Dunn 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.
- Listed as. Dunn, Peter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. S of McAfee off Old US 127, McAfee, 40330
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Mercer County MRA
- Census division. Salvisa-McAfee
- National Register reference number. 88003358 - 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
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Peter Dunn House in 2019, burning about 78 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 78 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CHINN FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McAfee Farm Historic District | 0.6 miles | 1989 | |
| Ambrose Burton House | 1.1 miles | 1983 | |
 | Aspen Hall | 1.1 miles | 1989 |
| James McAfee House | 1.2 miles | 1983 | |
| George McAfee House | 1.3 miles | 1983 | |
 | New Providence Presbyterian Church | 1.4 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003358 in Record Group 79. |
| Mercer County | All 70 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.