BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Peabody-Fordson Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. KY 66, S of Big Creek, Big Creek, 40914
- When was it listed? February 2017
- Category. district
- Census division. Big Creek
- National Register reference number. 89002099 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
252 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Peabody-Fordson Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,919 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 125 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 125 |
| Debris and open burning | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | DRY |
| 28 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | TIRES |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | TREE |
| 7 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | PEABODY HOUSE |
| 29 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | SUGAR |
Storms near this property
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Creek, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | $10,000 | Multiple large limbs blocking the roadway. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | $2,000 | Two trees down on Highways 1524 and 66 North. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | - | Trees were reported downed in the Big Creek community of Clay County. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | - | Trees and limbs were blown down in the Big Creek Community. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | - | Trees were blown down in Peabody. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Big Creek | - | Golf ball size hail was observed in Peabody. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Creek | - | Trees were blown down blocking several roads. |
| August 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Big Creek | - | A brief tornado touch down was reported in the forested area off the Daniel Boone Parkway. Only minimal tree damage resulted from this storm. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89002099 in Record Group 79. |
| Clay County | All 2 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.
- 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.