Forkland School and Gymnasium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of KY 37 and Curtis Rd., Gravel Switch, 40328
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. building
Census division. Perryville
National Register reference number. 98000086 - 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

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Forkland School and Gymnasium between 1998 and 2019, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2014	Debris and open burning	52 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MINORS BRANCH
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 1998	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELK CAVE

Every fire recorded in Boyle 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
Purdom-Lewis-Hutchison House	0.6 miles	1997
Guthrie-May House	2.1 miles	1999
Penn's Store	2.4 miles	1998
Isaacs House and Farmstead	2.9 miles	1999
Aliceton Camp Meeting Ground	3.6 miles	1998
Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert	3.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000086 in Record Group 79.
Boyle County	All 99 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.