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One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
George-Vest House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. George--Vest House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 13815 Walton-Verona Rd., Verona, 41092
- When was it listed? August 2000
- Category. building
- Also known as. Boone County, Kentucky MPS
- Census division. Walton
- National Register reference number. 00000913 - 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
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of George-Vest House in 2000, burning about 6 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $10,000 | Two barn roofs were blown off and numerous trees were knocked down. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $5,000 | Several eight to twelve inch diameter trees were knocked down along State Route 16 near the Gallatin County line. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down near Eads Road, east of Verona Market. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $3,000 | Numerous trees were blown down across the southern part of the county. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $2,000 | Tree limbs were down near Waller Road and Munk Road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Verona | $2,000 | Water was flowing over Salem Creek Road due to heavy rainfall. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verona | $2,000 | no account filed |
| February 2021 | Flood | Verona | - | A water rescue occured along Salem Creek Road. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Verona | - | High water was reported on State Route 16 due to heavy rainfall. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Verona | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Samuel Hind House | 0.9 miles | 1990 |
| South Main Street Historic District | 1.3 miles | 2005 | |
 | Verona High School | 1.9 miles | 2002 |
 | Wallace House | 2.0 miles | 1989 |
 | Edwards House | 2.0 miles | 1989 |
 | Chandler House | 2.1 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000913 in Record Group 79. |
| Boone County | All 101 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.
- 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.