New Haven Battlefield Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The New Haven Battlefield is the area of American Civil War military engagements at the intersection of the Rolling Fork and the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad line between Knoxville and New Haven, Kentucky. The geographic area includes the James Howell Farm and additional combat areas of December 30, 1862.”
Wikipedia article New Haven Battlefield Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Larue County · listed in 2004 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Lyons Station Rd., New Haven, 40051
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. site
Census division. Hodgenville
National Register reference number. 04000793 - 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

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of New Haven Battlefield Site between 1999 and 2016, burning about 260 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
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
26 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HALISY FIRE
18 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Haven Battlefield Site: 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

Every working recorded in Larue 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dorsey Beeler House	1.3 miles	1991
Aaron Atherton House	2.6 miles	1991
Miller-Blanton House	2.7 miles	1991
Walter Burch House	2.9 miles	1991
Lincoln Boyhood Home	4.1 miles	1988
School No. 20	6.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000793 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larue County	All 32 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.