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Photograph of Newell B. McClaskey House
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Newell B. McClaskey House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Newell Beauchamp McClaskey House is a historic site and building, a plantation house, and former plantation, located in Bloomfield, Kentucky which is part of the Bluegrass region. At one time, this site was worked and maintained by enslaved African American people.”

Wikipedia article Newell B. McClaskey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. McClaskey, Newell B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1795 KY 1066, Bloomfield, 40008
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bloomfield
  • National Register reference number. 00000269 - 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.

Storms near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Estimated 60 mph wind gust near Bloomfield.
January 2023Flash FloodBloomfield-A water rescue occurred on Springfield Road in Bloomfield.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Dispatch reported that a couple of trees were down on the 800 block of Taylorsville Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Public reported a tree down in the area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Several trees and limbs were reported down in the northeastern part of the county.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Trees were reported to have blown down in the area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-The public reported trees uprooted due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Local law enforcement reported downed trees blocking the road near the intersection of Highway 62 and Highway 55.
June 2017Flash FloodBloomfield-Law enforcement reported that parts of Highway 62 south of Bloomfield became impassable due to flash flooding and was briefly closed.
April 2015HailBloomfield-The public reported penny size hail near Bloomfield.
July 2015Flash FloodBloomfield-A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that high water was flowing over KY 55.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Broadcast media reported estimated gusts of 60 mph.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-The Nelson county highway dept. reported trees down around Bloomfield on Highways 162 and 62.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines.
April 2025HailBloomfield-no account filed
March 2024HailBloomfield-no account filed
April 2017HailBloomfield-no account filed
April 1999HailBloomfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Coombs-Duncan-Brown Farmhouse1.3 miles2010
Henry Duncan House2.5 miles1990
John Stone House2.7 miles1984
Walnut Groves Farm2.7 miles1980
Bloomfield Historic District2.8 miles1991
Walnut Groves Farm (Boundary Increase I)3.0 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nelson CountyAll 44 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.
  • 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.