South Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly along Main St. between Edwards and Oreco Sts., Walton, 41094
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. district
Also known as. Boone County, Kentucky MPS
Census division. Walton
National Register reference number. 04001249 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of South Main Street Historic District 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

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$15,000	Several trees were blown down. A barn and a house were damaged. Two mobile homes at the Speedway were damaged.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$5,000	A barn was destroyed, along with major damage to a few outbuildings along State Route 16. Several trees and power lines were also downed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$5,000	A tree fell on a house, causing minor damage.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$3,000	A few trees were downed near exit 171 on I-75.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$3,000	Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$3,000	Trees were blown down over Stevenson Mill Road.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$3,000	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$1,000	A large tree was downed.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Walton	$1,000	Multiple intersections were impassible due to the heavy rainfall.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$750	A small tree was snapped in half.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$750	One tree was snapped.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	$500	A tree was downed along Salem Creek Road.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Walton	-	A portion of Salem Creek Road was under water due to rapid rises on McCoys Fork.
September 2018	Flood	Walton	-	Several inches of water was reported flowing across U.S. Route 25.
February 2016	Hail	Walton	-	Dime size hail fell near mile marker 173 on I-75.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Walton	-	Little Salem Creek went out of its banks, causing flooding of lowlands and roads near the stream.
April 2011	Hail	Walton	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Walton	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Walton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Samuel Hind House	0.4 miles	1990
Nicholas S. and Gertrude E. Blau House	0.9 miles	2005
Wallace House	1.0 miles	1989
John G. Tomlin House	1.1 miles	2005
Edwards House	1.1 miles	1989
C. Scott Chambers House and Funeral Parlor	1.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001249 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.