Janice Holt and Henry Giles Log House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Adair County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Giles, Janice Holt and Henry, Log House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 302 Spout Springs Rd., Knifley, 42753
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. building
Census division. Casey Creek
National Register reference number. 97001237 - 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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Janice Holt and Henry Giles Log House between 1998 and 2017, burning about 296 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
10 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HUNTING HILLS
23 April 2001	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Janice Holt and Henry Giles Log House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Neatsville Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knifley, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
January 2022	Flash Flood	Knifley	-	Flash flooding occurred in Knifely. Damage amount unknown.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Knifley	-	Adair County law enforcement officials reported trees down in the area.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Knifley	-	Local law enforcement reported several trees down in the area.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Knifley	-	Several trees were blown down in the Knifely area.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Knifley	-	An emergency manager reported a house with a wall blown down and a roof partially blown off. Also, numerous trees and power lines were down in the Casey Creek Rd. area.
June 1998	Flash Flood	Knifley	-	State police reported numerous roads closed and some homes surrounded by water.
March 2011	Hail	Knifley	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Knifley	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Knifley	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Knifley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001237 in Record Group 79.
Adair County	All 7 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.
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.