Photograph of The Darby House — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Darby House, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Arcadia Ave. in Dawson Springs, Kentucky was built around 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Darby House (Dawson Springs, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Hopkins County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 W. Arcadia Ave., Dawson Springs, 42408
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Census division. Dawson Springs
National Register reference number. 97000871 - 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

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Darby House, The between 1998 and 2017, burning about 526 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were 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	16
Recreation and ceremony	15
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	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
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawson Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dawson Springs	$2,000	A large tree was uprooted in Dawson Springs by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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

5 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
Dawson Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1998
Dawson Springs Historic District	under 500 feet	1988
Richard Salmon House	5.1 miles	1988
Cranor School	6.5 miles	1989
Beulah Lodge	7.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000871 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hopkins County	All 30 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.