Miller-Knight House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Miller--Knight House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 Township rd. 1046, Miller
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
National Register reference number. 03000720 - 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.

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Miller-Knight House, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet covering Miller-Knight House, surveyed 1906

Fires near this property

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Miller-Knight House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism	46
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	HOEFT MARSH
27 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	FIAZIERS LANE
6 June 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	PERRY CREEK
5 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	FAIRVIEW RIDGE
5 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	PERRY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1976 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Scottown Covered Bridge	4.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000720 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 20 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.