Bardstown, Kentucky

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• Nelson County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 28 shown

• Bardstown Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Beechwoldlisted 1984
• Bruntwoodlisted 1975
• Confederate Monument of Bardstownlisted 1997
• Ben Johnson Houselisted 1979
• John S. Kelley Houselisted 1992
• Kurtz Restaurant and Bardstown-Parkview Motel-Officelisted 2011
• My Old Kentucky Homelisted 1971
• Old Kentucky Home Motellisted 2011
• Spalding Hall, St. Joseph's Collegelisted 1973
• St. Joseph Cathedral and College Complexlisted 1976
• St. Joseph Proto Cathedrallisted 1974

Every listing in Nelson County

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

• Cottage Grove, Bardstownfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• My Old Kentucky Home, 501 East Stephen Foster Avenue, Bardstownfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• St. Joseph's Cathedral, Bardstownfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• St. Thomas Catholic Church, U.S. Route 31 East, Bardstownfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Wickland, U.S. Route 55, Bardstownfederal building survey, 14 photographs

Bardstown grew from 11,700 to 13,567 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1953 USGS Bardstown quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Bardstown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bardstown between 2000 and 2013, burning about 86 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Bardstown (historical)
• South Bardstown (historical)
• Bellwood
• Bourbon Springs
• Cravens
• Nazareth

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bardstown: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Nelson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bardstown in 75 storm reports between 1974 and 2026: 50 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 25 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Nelson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 486333. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.