Nicholas County, Kentucky

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Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	Carlisle Armory	building	2000	00000280
	Carlisle Historic District	district	1989	89001599
	Carlisle, Louisville and Nashville Passenger Depot	building	1979	79001028
	Dinsmore House	building	1989	89001602
	Thomas A. Dorsey Farmhouse	building	1989	89001603
	James Ellis Stone Tavern	building	1976	76000932
	Forest Retreat Farm and Tavern	building	1973	73000825
	Thomas Kennedy House	building	1989	89001601
	William Mathers House	building	1989	89001600
	Erasmus Riggs House	building	1983	83002839
	Stone Barn on Brushy Creek	building	1983	83002840
	John Henry Thompson House	building	1983	83002841

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 345 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 16 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 8 of them, burning about 124 acres. None started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 127 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths, 8 injuries and about $2,815,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 1 working inside this county. It is closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

• Carlisle

  Carlisle census division · 40311 · Near Gallows Hill · Carlisle quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1953 to 1986

  Fire insurance: 8 atlases

• Barefoot

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · Near Poke Wagoner Hill · Piqua quadrangle

  5 sheets, 1952 to 1986

• Barterville

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · Piqua quadrangle

  5 sheets, 1952 to 1986

• East Union

  Carlisle census division · 40311 · On East Fork Somerset Creek · Sharpsburg quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1952 to 1982

• Ellisville

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · Piqua quadrangle

  5 sheets, 1952 to 1986

• Headquarters

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · Carlisle quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1953 to 1986

• Hickory Ridge

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · On Hickory Ridge · Carlisle quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1953 to 1986

  No longer a settlement

• Hooktown

  Headquarters census division · 41031 · Millersburg quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1953 to 1986

• Milltown

  Carlisle census division · 40350 · On Big Branch · Sherburne quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1952 to 1982

• Moorefield

  Carlisle census division · 40311 · Moorefield quadrangle

  7 sheets, 1953 to 1982

• Morning Glory

  Headquarters census division · 41031 · On Little Beaver Creek · Shady Nook quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1952 to 1986

• Myers

  Headquarters census division · 40311 · On Scrubgrass Creek · Moorefield quadrangle

  7 sheets, 1953 to 1982

• Pleasant Valley

  Headquarters census division · 41039 · On Fleming Creek · Cowan quadrangle

  8 sheets, 1952 to 1982

• Sprout

  Carlisle census division · 40350 · On Cane Run · Moorefield quadrangle

  7 sheets, 1953 to 1982

• Upper Blue Licks

  Carlisle census division · 40350 · On Big Branch · Sherburne quadrangle

  6 sheets, 1952 to 1982

• Weston

  Carlisle census division · 40311 · Moorefield quadrangle

  7 sheets, 1953 to 1982

The vanished settlements of Nicholas County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.