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One of 44 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Silvester Johnson House and Business
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Johnson, Silvester, House and Business - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 151-153 N. Main St., New Haven, 40051
- When was it listed? April 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. New Haven
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 02000345 - 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
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Silvester Johnson House and Business between 1998 and 2017, burning about 135 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site | KNOB CREEK |
| 13 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HURST FIRE |
| 8 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HALISY FIRE |
| 5 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Silvester Johnson House and Business: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Gap Roadcut | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Haven, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Lightning | New Haven | 2 killed, $25,000 | During the early morning hours of Thursday August 24, 2000, a complex of thunderstorms across South Central Indiana moved south into North Central Kentucky. The area of thunderstorms produced very heavy rain, locally strong winds and frequent lightning. A lightning strike apparently started a fire in a mobile home around 2 AM EST, possibly after striking near a propane tank. Two females, ages 7 and 9, were killed in the mobile home, apparently due to smoke inhalation. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | $50,000 | Three roofs damaged by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | Trees and power lines were down near Howardstown Road and Walter Hall Road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | Multiple trees were blown down by strong winds near New Haven. About 600 customers were without power in the area. |
| February 2008 | Flood | New Haven | - | The Rolling Fork River at Boston crested at 35.2 feet around 930 AM EST on February 8. Flood stage at Boston is 35 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with agricultural bottom land covered. |
| January 2006 | Hail | New Haven | - | Penny size hail covered the ground. |
| February 2003 | Flash Flood | New Haven | - | Some creeks and streams were out of their banks. |
| May 2002 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Sherwood Hotel | under 500 feet | 1992 | |
 | Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665 | 0.1 miles | 1997 |
| Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car | 0.2 miles | 1998 | |
| MT. BRODERICK Pullman Lounge-Obs-Sleeping Car | 0.2 miles | 1997 | |
| Howard Brothers' Store | 6.0 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000345 in Record Group 79. |
| Nelson County | All 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.
- 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.