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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
William Chiles House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Chiles, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Off Richmond Rd. S of US 60, Mount Sterling, 40353
- When was it listed? April 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Mount Sterling MPS
- Census division. Mount Sterling
- Architectural style. Federal architecture
- National Register reference number. 91000430 - 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
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of William Chiles House between 2001 and 2018, burning about 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SR 486 |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KIDDVILLE |
| 21 February 2001 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Miss Emma Hicks Bungalow | 0.2 miles | 1991 |
 | Church of the Ascension | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
| Northwest Residential District | 0.4 miles | 1989 | |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Passenger and Baggage Depots | 0.4 miles | 1991 | |
| Mount Sterling Commercial District | 0.5 miles | 1980 | |
 | Monarch Milling Company | 0.5 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000430 in Record Group 79. |
| Montgomery County | All 16 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.