Confederate Monument in Glasgow

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Confederate Monument in Glasgow, Kentucky, built in 1905 by the Kentucky Women's Monumental Association and former Confederate soldier John A. Murray, commemorates those who gave their lives in service for the Confederate States of America.”
Wikipedia article Confederate Monument in Glasgow, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Barren 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 Main and Green Sts., Glascow, 42141
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Glasgow
National Register reference number. 97000717 - 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

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Confederate Monument in Glasgow between 1998 and 1999, burning about 4 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
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
9 April 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 November 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Barren 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 Confederate Monument in Glasgow: 1 producer, 1 past 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Barren County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Mc Murtrey Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Barren 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
Glasgow Central Business District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	2004
Morris Building	under 500 feet	1983
Glasgow Central Business District	under 500 feet	1993
First National Bank	under 500 feet	1983
U.S. Post Office/Board of Education Building	under 500 feet	1983
Third National Bank	under 500 feet	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barren County	All 37 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.