Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument is a memorial to two Confederate soldiers in Saint Joseph, Kentucky. It is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the only NRHP location in Daviess County, Kentucky that is or was not in Owensboro, Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Daviess County · listed in 1997 · category: Object.

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. Jct. of KY 56 and Ky 500, St. Joseph, 42301
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Utica-Stanley
National Register reference number. 97000707 - 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument between 2003 and 2006, burning about 13 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	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 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Daviess 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mount St. Joseph Academy	0.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000707 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Daviess County	All 38 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.