BlockFrom the record
One of 62 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Civil War Fort at Boonesboro
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- Address. 0.6 mi. N of Ford, W of Fort Hampton Rd., Ford, 40391
- When was it listed? June 2003
- Category. structure
- Census division. Ford-Boonesborough
- National Register reference number. 03000262 - 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
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Civil War Fort at Boonesboro between 1999 and 2017, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 June 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 December 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MT. MORIAH FIRE |
| 10 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | EKU-FM |
| 30 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 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 Civil War Fort at Boonesboro: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boonesboro Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ford, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Ford | - | Four Mile Road was closed due to high water. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. Bush-Dykes House | 1.9 miles | 1979 | |
| J. Quisenberry House | 2.7 miles | 1979 | |
| Martin House | 2.8 miles | 1979 | |
| Achilles Eubank House | 2.9 miles | 1979 | |
 | Hodgkins House | 3.1 miles | 1979 |
| William Taylor House | 3.3 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000262 in Record Group 79. |
| Clark County | All 62 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.