Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1962. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is a United States presidential memorial and a National Historic Landmark District in Lincoln City, Indiana. It preserves the farm site where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1816 to 1830.”
Wikipedia article Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1962 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. IN 162, Lincoln City, 47552
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Township. Carter township
When was it built? 1962
National Register reference number. 66000012 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural	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
13 April 2018	Natural	under an acre	Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial	DRACH

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2003: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln City	-	Trees were down, and a shed was damaged at Lincoln City. A tree fell on a car and home at Gentryville.
May 2003	Hail	Lincoln City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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

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
	Col. William Jones House	2.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000012 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spencer 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.
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.