Riverview School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 31E NE side, 1.2 mi. N of High Grove, High Grove, 40013
When was it listed? February 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Spencer County MPS
Census division. West Spencer
National Register reference number. 93001595 - 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Riverview School between 1997 and 2012, burning about 54 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3

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 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGH GROVE
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PORTER FIRE
7 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 February 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Spencer 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

4 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
Isaac Miller Farm	5.8 miles	1994
Stone House on Plum Creek	7.7 miles	1987
Felix Grundy Stidger House	7.9 miles	2016
Bourne-Anderson House	7.9 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001595 in Record Group 79.
Spencer County	All 14 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.