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Mill Springs National Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Mill Springs National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the unincorporated community of Nancy, eight miles (13 km) west of the city of Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 6.3 acres (2.5 ha), and as of 2014, has over 4,000 interments.”

Wikipedia article Mill Springs National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 9044 West Hwy 80, Nancy, 42544
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
  • Census division. Nancy
  • National Register reference number. 98000592 - 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mill Springs National Cemetery between 1998 and 2014, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWEST GATE
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPORTER CREEK
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 November 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 November 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Mill Springs National Cemetery: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fishing Creek ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nancy, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNancy$25,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home. A roof was blown off a garage and several 30 inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2023HailNancy$20,000Multiple social media reports from the town of Nancy showed hail at least tennis ball size. Roof and siding damage to a few structures along the Lanetown Road was reported, likely resulting from wind driven hail. Vehicle glass was also broken.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000The roof was blown off of a home on Old Ridge Road 5 miles southwest of Nancy.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000Power lines down in the Nancy and Faubush areas.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a roof off of a factory plant in Nancy. Numerous trees down in the area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNancy$8,000A large tree was blown down on the Cottage Motel near Naney and knocked the building off its foundation.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$7,000A mobile home was overturned and porch blown off of home by high winds off KY 80 at Nancy. Telephone poles and trees down just north of Burnside.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$5,000Trees were blown down.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindNancy$5,000Roof blown off home.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$2,000Trees and power lines down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000A tree was reportedly fallen and leaning on a power line at the 200 block of Lanetown Road (W. Frye Road) in the community of Nancy.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000A tree was blown down and across Gossett Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000Power lines blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNancy$500A large branch was blown down and was blocking the road on KY 196.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was reported down along KY-761, with a couple additional trees blown down in the vicinity.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was downed and blocking Hwy-761 near the community of Nancy.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNancy-Local Emergency Management reported trees were blown down and onto Kentucky Highway 80 between Nancy and Somerset. A pontoon boat was blown off of Lake Cumberland at Pulaski County Park.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNancy-Dispatch reported a tree blown down on Kentucky Highway 196 in Nancy.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down on Lanetown Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down along Hwy 3189.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was blown down at Haney's Appledale Farm.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNancy-A large tree was blown down and onto a mobile home.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were downed.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindNancy-Tree reported down in Nancy.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was blown down on Hwy 80 West.
April 2011Funnel CloudNancy-The event occurred between 320 and 350pm.
January 2004Flash FloodNancy-Roberts Port Road, southwest of Nancy, was closed due to high water. Highway 1956 at Kentucky Highway 80 was closed and a family was evacuated due to high water. In and around Somerset, several roads were closed due to high water, including: Highway 635 at Kentucky Route 39, Route 1247 at Bodie Road, Kentucky Highway 80 East (at Pumphouse Road), and Kentucky Highway 70 at Goochtown Road.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were down in Nancy and Woodshack.
July 2003HailNancy-One inch diameter hail occurred along the Cumberland Parkway.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindNancy-Several trees were down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees Down.
June 2006HailNancy-no account filed
June 2004HailNancy-no account filed
July 2003HailNancy-no account filed
June 2001HailNancy-no account filed
April 1999HailNancy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset0.9 miles1997
Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument0.9 miles1997
Nancy Elementary School1.0 miles2025
Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas (Boundary Increase)4.0 miles2009
Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas4.9 miles1993
Robinson Mill7.0 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000592 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski CountyAll 43 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.