Photograph of Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument — Photograph by Jacob singleton21, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Col. Robert A. Smith Monument

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Smith Monument, located in Hart County, Kentucky, is a monument related to the American Civil War, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in the memory of Colonel Robert A.”
Wikipedia article Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1885.

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.
Listed as. Smith, Col. Robert A., Monument - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Along CSX RR tracks. 0.25 mi. W of Woodsonville, Munfordviile, 42765
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Horse Cave
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 97000693 - 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Col. Robert A. Smith Monument between 1998 and 2020, burning about 86 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	8
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	YODER FIRE
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MCCUBBINS FIRE
18 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHESTNUT GROVE CEM.
28 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Col. Robert A. Smith Monument: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Geralds Stone Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hart 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 Munfordville Site	0.3 miles	1999
Alvey Cox House	0.9 miles	1980
F. A. Smith House	0.9 miles	1980
Munford Inn	0.9 miles	1984
Munfordville Baptist Church	1.0 miles	1980
Munfordville School	1.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000693 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hart County	All 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.