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Photograph of Mitchell-Estes Farmstead
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mitchell-Estes Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Mitchell-Estes Farmstead, in Edmonson and Warren counties near Smiths Grove, Kentucky is a historic site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing site on 94 acres (38 ha).”

Wikipedia article Mitchell-Estes Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Edmonson County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Mitchell--Estes Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1706 Upper Smiths Grove Rd., Smiths Grove, 42171
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Brownsville
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 95001528 - 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell-Estes Farmstead between 1998 and 2014, burning about 57 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryNOAH BLEDS
7 April 2011Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAYS FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.2 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE KNOB FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPIG ROAD
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 February 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mitchell-Estes Farmstead: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Park City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Smith Grove No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edmonson 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William Ford House1.6 miles1980
Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse4.3 miles2018
Mill Hole Farm4.8 miles1978
Joppa Baptist Church and Cemetery6.7 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Edmonson CountyAll 21 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.