Guthrie-May House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1999 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Guthrie--May House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of jct. of KY 37 and KY 243, Gravel Switch, 40328
When was it listed? May 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Boyle MPS
Census division. Perryville
National Register reference number. 98000336 - 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Guthrie-May House between 1999 and 2019, burning about 172 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
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
14 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELK CAVE
16 February 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 October 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Penn's Store	0.4 miles	1998
Isaacs House and Farmstead	0.8 miles	1999
Forkland School and Gymnasium	2.1 miles	1998
Purdom-Lewis-Hutchison House	2.3 miles	1997
Aliceton Camp Meeting Ground	2.5 miles	1998
Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert	5.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000336 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.