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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd County · listed in 2004 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Gray's Inn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 88 Graysville Rd., Guthrie, 42234
- When was it listed? November 2004
- Category. site
- Also known as. Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS
- Census division. Guthrie
- National Register reference number. 04001254 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gray's Inn in 1999, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guthrie, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | $350,000 | Flash flooding in Guthrie prompted evacuations on several residential streets. Homes began flooding before sunrise. Rescue boats were brought in from Muhlenberg County to assist with evacuations. Over 20 homes and businesses were flooded in the Guthrie area. Six of the homes were uninhabitable after sustaining major damage. Three to four feet of water covered the low-lying neighborhood that was evacuated. Standing water over Highways 181 and 171 slowed traffic, but the roads were passable. All county schools were closed due to flooding. A storm total rainfall of 7.81 inches was reported at the Kentucky mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton. Most of this rain fell in a 24-hour period. A Cocorahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow) network observer in Guthrie measured 7.10 inches. |
| November 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Guthrie | $100,000 | An EF-1 tornado (with peak winds of 98mph) began north of Guthrie where several trees were snapped. The narrow tornado moved east across open fields where it flipped a pivot irrigation system. It destroyed a small outbuilding and damaged other smaller buildings nearby. Several power poles were snapped along US-79 and the intersection of US-79 and KY-848. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $80,000 | A microburst, as relayed by the county emergency management director, downed at least 50 to 100 trees or tree limbs along with power lines in a Guthrie subdivision. Damage area was less than 1/4 mile wide and less than 1/8 mile long. Some trees fell on cars, however tree damage to homes was very limited. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $15,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. A wall was blown over at Guthrie. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $10,000 | Numerous trees were down across the county. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $10,000 | Downed tree limbs and power lines were reported. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Guthrie | $10,000 | Baseball size hail was reported along Highway 181 about 4 miles northwest of Guthrie. Vehicles were dented. In Guthrie, quarter size hail was reported. The large hail was caused by a severe thunderstorm that drifted slowly north across the Guthrie area from Tennessee. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down on the southeast side of Guthrie, near the Tennessee state line. Tin was blown off a barn. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $3,000 | A power pole and lines were blown down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | $2,000 | A tree was down on a power line. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | - | Flash flooding inundated roads and threatened homes in the Guthrie area. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | - | Water over the road was reported in Guthrie. Rainfall amounts of 2-4 inches had occurred between 0430CST-0830CST on the TN border. Flooding issues transitioned from flash flood to flood mid-morning. |
| May 2024 | Flood | Guthrie | - | Lingering flooding occurred through the day on the 8th, with additional rainfall during the evening continuing flooding issues into the overnight hours. Total rainfall accumulations in Guthrie reached a radar estimated 5-7 inches. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | - | Water was over roadways in Guthrie and Trenton. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | - | Several streets in Guthrie were covered with water, including Highways 181 and 41. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Guthrie | - | Several roads were flooded in the south part of Guthrie. Water was over a couple of roads near Elkton, including Highway 475. |
| December 2017 | Flood | Guthrie | - | Several roads in Guthrie were closed due to high water. Water was over Highway 181 near U.S. Highway 41 west of Guthrie. Water was also reported over Highway 848 north of Guthrie. Two to three inches of rain fell over the area in the preceding 12 hours or so. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Guthrie | - | Over four inches of water was flowing across Highway 848. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Guthrie | - | Many streets were flooded in and around the community of Guthrie. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guthrie | - | Trees were down on Highway 346. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Guthrie | - | Thunderstorms moved slowly over the same local parts of southern Todd County. Radar estimated up to 2.7 inches of rain fell in three hours between Elkton and Guthrie. Several roads were reported under water at the time of heaviest rain. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Guthrie | - | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Hail | Guthrie | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Guthrie | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Guthrie | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guthrie Historic District | 1.9 miles | 2011 | |
 | Idlewild | 3.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Woodstock | 6.3 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04001254 in Record Group 79. |
| Todd County | All 14 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.