Nester House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Nester House, also known as the Family Grocerie, Union Hotel, and Riverplace, is a historic hotel located at Troy, Indiana. It was built about 1863, and is a sandstone block building, with a late 1870s or mid 1880s rear addition.”
Wikipedia article Nester House (Troy, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 300 Water St., Troy
When was it listed? October 1990
Category. building
Township. Troy township
National Register reference number. 90001486 - 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Nester House between 1999 and 2006, burning about 78 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
5 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	TROY
7 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SCHOOL
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	BRUSHY FORK
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PONDEROSA FIRE
14 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 February 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	RAINBOW
3 November 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TELL CITY HILL

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nester House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, 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
	Hawesville	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Producer
	Tell City Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. 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
June 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Troy	$200,000	A circulation embedded within a strong line of storms spawned an EF-1 tornado that touched down to the northwest of Tell City, in Perry County, Indiana. It moved southeast for just over 5 miles across Tell City, lifting just south of the intersection of State Highway 237 and Scotch Pine Road. Several large trees were felled along the entire tornado's path, and several homes in Tell City received damage to their roofs. Numerous outbuildings were destroyed. A carnival site at the intersection of 10th and Watt Streets was damaged. A few rides were displaced and a semi-trailer was overturned. Many tree branches were snapped southeast of Tell City before the tornado lifted.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$4,000	Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped over a broad area just north of the Ohio River from west to east of Troy. Roof damage occurred to a 2-story building in Troy.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A tree was reported down on State Road 66.
March 2018	Flood	Troy	-	The Ohio River at Tell City continued to be above flood stage. The river crested in late February but didn't drop below flood stage until March 7.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Multiple trees were reported down between Tell City and Troy.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Troy	-	A NWS storm survey team located a small tornado roughly 1 mile east-northeast of Troy. The damage was confined to an area approximately 1/3 of a mile long and 50 yards wide. There was substantial soft and hardwood tree damage east of the industrial park, in a heavily forested area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A county official reported a tree down on Atlanta Road north of Tell City.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Trees were reported down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Local TV meteorologists relayed a report of trees down in Troy, IN.
April 2008	Flood	Troy	-	The Ohio River at Tell City crested at 39.5 feet around 6 AM EST on April 8. Flood stage at Tell City is 38 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with Indiana Highway 66 flooded between Rome and Derby.
March 2008	Flood	Troy	-	The Ohio River at Tell City crested at 44.5 feet around 600 AM EST on March 22. Flood stage at Tell City is 38 feet. The city flood wall is closed at 40 feet, and water reaches the base of the flood wall. Bottom land on both sides of the river floods.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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

4 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
Tell City Carnegie Library	3.7 miles	2023
Cannelton Historic District	6.6 miles	1987
Cannelton Cotton Mills	6.6 miles	1975
St. Luke's Episcopal Church	6.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001486 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 7 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.