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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Switzerland County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Vevay Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Seminary St., Market St., Arch St., Pearl St. & Main St., Vevay, 47043
- When was it listed? December 2019
- Category. district
- Township. Jefferson township
- National Register reference number. 100004722 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Vevay Historic District in 2004, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vevay Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
37 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vevay, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Vevay | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Vevay | $10,000 | A road was closed and water was reported in the lower levels of homes in Vevay. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $8,000 | Several trees were downed on the east side of Vevay, primarily along Ohio Street and East Seminary Street. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $5,000 | Trees down around Vevay and near Markland Dam. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Vevay | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $4,000 | Several trees were reported down across the county due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down along State Route 56 outside of Vevay. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $3,000 | Two trees fell in town. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Vevay | $2,000 | High water was reported over roads countywide due to heavy rainfall. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $2,000 | Trees were downed throughout town. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $1,000 | A few large branches were downed onto power lines. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $1,000 | One large tree was downed on Market Street and a few other tree limbs were downed in the town of Vevay due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vevay | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Vevay | - | Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Vevay | - | Three quarters of an inch to one inch hail was reported. |
| March 2006 | Flash Flood | Vevay | - | State Route 56 was flooded in town. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Vevay | - | High water and debris closed State Route 56. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Vevay | - | Cole Road was closed by high water. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Vevay | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Hoosier Theatre | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Switzerland County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 2009 |
 | Edward and George Cary Eggleston House | 0.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Benjamin Schenck Mansion | 0.4 miles | 2002 |
 | Venoge Farmstead | 1.6 miles | 1997 |
 | Thiebaud Farmstead | 3.3 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004722 in Record Group 79. |
| Switzerland County | All 9 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.