Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 2019. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument was the location of the Battle of Mill Springs in January 1862. National Historic Landmark in 1993 and authorized as a national monument in 2019.”
Wikipedia article Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1993 · category: District · built in 2019 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly, three discontiguous areas, one S of Nancy, one in Mill Springs and one to the N across the Cumberland R., Nancy, 42544
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. district
Census division. Nancy
When was it built? 2019
National Register reference number. 93000001 - 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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas between 2000 and 2019, burning about 232 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
8 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	205 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KING TOWN# 2
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2011	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	IMPERIAL
10 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 December 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CEDAR BLUFF
23 November 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nancy, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home. A roof was blown off a garage and several 30 inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2023	Hail	Nancy	$20,000	Multiple social media reports from the town of Nancy showed hail at least tennis ball size. Roof and siding damage to a few structures along the Lanetown Road was reported, likely resulting from wind driven hail. Vehicle glass was also broken.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$10,000	The roof was blown off of a home on Old Ridge Road 5 miles southwest of Nancy.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$10,000	Power lines down in the Nancy and Faubush areas.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a roof off of a factory plant in Nancy. Numerous trees down in the area.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$8,000	A large tree was blown down on the Cottage Motel near Naney and knocked the building off its foundation.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$7,000	A mobile home was overturned and porch blown off of home by high winds off KY 80 at Nancy. Telephone poles and trees down just north of Burnside.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$5,000	Roof blown off home.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$2,000	Trees and power lines down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$1,000	A tree was reportedly fallen and leaning on a power line at the 200 block of Lanetown Road (W. Frye Road) in the community of Nancy.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$1,000	A tree was blown down and across Gossett Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$1,000	Power lines blown down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	$500	A large branch was blown down and was blocking the road on KY 196.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	A tree was reported down along KY-761, with a couple additional trees blown down in the vicinity.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	A tree was downed and blocking Hwy-761 near the community of Nancy.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Local Emergency Management reported trees were blown down and onto Kentucky Highway 80 between Nancy and Somerset. A pontoon boat was blown off of Lake Cumberland at Pulaski County Park.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Dispatch reported a tree blown down on Kentucky Highway 196 in Nancy.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were blown down on Lanetown Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were blown down along Hwy 3189.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	A tree was blown down at Haney's Appledale Farm.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	A large tree was blown down and onto a mobile home.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were downed.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Tree reported down in Nancy.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	A tree was blown down on Hwy 80 West.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Nancy	-	The event occurred between 320 and 350pm.
January 2004	Flash Flood	Nancy	-	Roberts Port Road, southwest of Nancy, was closed due to high water. Highway 1956 at Kentucky Highway 80 was closed and a family was evacuated due to high water. In and around Somerset, several roads were closed due to high water, including: Highway 635 at Kentucky Route 39, Route 1247 at Bodie Road, Kentucky Highway 80 East (at Pumphouse Road), and Kentucky Highway 70 at Goochtown Road.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were down in Nancy and Woodshack.
July 2003	Hail	Nancy	-	One inch diameter hail occurred along the Cumberland Parkway.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Several trees were down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nancy	-	Trees Down.
June 2006	Hail	Nancy	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Nancy	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Nancy	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Nancy	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Nancy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas (Boundary Increase)	0.9 miles	2009
Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset	4.0 miles	1997
Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument	4.0 miles	1997
Mill Springs National Cemetery	4.9 miles	1998
Nancy Elementary School	5.0 miles	2025
US Post Office-Bronston	7.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 43 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.