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One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Nicholas S. and Gertrude E. Blau House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Blau, Nicholas S. and Gertrude E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 15 Alta Vista Ave., Walton, 41094
- When was it listed? November 2005
- Category. building
- Also known as. Boone County, Kentucky MPS
- Census division. Walton
- National Register reference number. 05001305 - 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
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Nicholas S. and Gertrude E. Blau House between 2000 and 2002, burning about 63 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
19 since 1996Regional 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John G. Tomlin House | 0.3 miles | 2005 |
 | C. Scott Chambers House and Funeral Parlor | 0.3 miles | 2000 |
 | John Clifton Mayhugh House | 0.3 miles | 1989 |
 | John Clifton and Ann Catherine Mayhugh House | 0.4 miles | 2005 |
 | Wallace House | 0.5 miles | 1989 |
 | Edwards House | 0.7 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001305 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.