Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Sterling, Kentucky in Montgomery County, Kentucky, commemorates those who fought for the Confederate States of America. It is inscribed by passages from the Bivouac of the Dead.”
Wikipedia article Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1880.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Machpelan Cemetery. 1.5 mi. E of jct. of US 460 and KY 713, Mt. Sterling, 40353
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Mount Sterling
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 97000675 - 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling between 2001 and 2010, burning about 15 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	2
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
13 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
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

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Machpelah Cemetery	0.3 miles	1991
KEAS Tabernacle Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	1983
W. T. Fitzpatrick House	0.4 miles	1991
Methodist Episcopal Church South	0.5 miles	1991
Monarch Milling Company	0.5 miles	1991
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Passenger and Baggage Depots	0.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000675 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.