BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for McLean County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Battle of Sacramento Battlefield
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of KY 81 and KY 85, Sacremento, 42350
- When was it listed? March 1998
- Category. site
- Census division. Sacramento
- National Register reference number. 97000875 - 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 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Battle of Sacramento Battlefield between 1997 and 2010, burning about 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 November 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 November 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CEMETERY FIRE |
| 5 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Griffith-Franklin House | 7.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 97000875 in Record Group 79. |
| McLean County | All 3 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.