BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Gardner House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. farm lane on N side of W. Walker Rd., Northtown, 42749
- When was it listed? August 2004
- Category. building
- Census division. Horse Cave
- National Register reference number. 04000794 - 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
25 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Gardner House between 1998 and 2018, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FLINT RIDG |
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Mammoth Cave National Park | CENTER POINT |
| 12 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 27 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northtown, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Lightning | Northtown | $45,000 | It was reported that 25 to 30 heads of livestock were killed in the Northtown area of Hart County when lightning struck during a storm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chapline Building | 4.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave | 4.9 miles | 1997 |
 | Col. Robert A. Smith Monument | 5.6 miles | 1997 |
 | Munford Inn | 5.6 miles | 1984 |
 | Alvey Cox House | 5.6 miles | 1980 |
| Cub Run Elementary School | 5.8 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04000794 in Record Group 79. |
| Hart County | All 21 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.