Walton, Kentucky

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 16 shown

• Nicholas S. and Gertrude E. Blau Houselisted 2005
• C. Scott Chambers House and Funeral Parlorlisted 2000
• Chandler Houselisted 1989
• Edwards Houselisted 1989
• Col. Abner Gaines Houselisted 1980
• Samuel Hind Houselisted 1990
• John Clifton and Ann Catherine Mayhugh Houselisted 2005
• John Clifton Mayhugh Houselisted 1989
• John G. Tomlin Houselisted 2005
• Wallace Houselisted 1989
• Robert Chamber Houselisted 2000
• Code Houselisted 2005

Every listing in Boone County

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.

• 1950 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walton between 2000 and 2002, burning about 63 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:

• Kensington

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Boone County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509314. 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.

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.