BlockFrom the record
One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
West Millersburg Rural Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- Address. Millersburg-Ruddels Mills Rd and Steele Ford Rd., Millersburg, 40361
- When was it listed? May 2007
- Category. district
- Census division. Millersburg
- National Register reference number. 06001197 - 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.
Storms near this property
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millersburg, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | 1 killed, 2 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| December 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Millersburg | $150,000 | A survey confirmed that an EF-1 tornado was embedded within a severe squall line that brought widespread damage to northern Bourbon County. An area of concentrated damage was surveyed along Colville and Steele Ford Roads as well as Endicott Lane. Along these roads several large barns and outbuildings were either destroyed or heavily damaged. EF-1 damage was confirmed along Endicott Lane as some well-anchored barn footers were lifted up and thrown 75 yards. Several residents also reported a loud roar within torrential rain as the line of storms passed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Millersburg | $15,000 | Numerous reports of damaging hail around Millersburg. The Millersburg fire department reported a funnel cloud and 1.75 inch hail. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree was over a road in Millersburg. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Millersburg | - | Highway 1879 was closed due to high water. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree fell on a house. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree was down on Steel Ford Road. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
420 digitised pages1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 104 issues, 420 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Bourbon News | 1881 to 1883 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | McKee-Vimont Row Houses | 1.6 miles | 1975 |
| Millersburg Historic District | 1.8 miles | 1986 | |
 | Colville Covered Bridge | 1.8 miles | 1974 |
| Thomas Champ House | 3.2 miles | 2003 | |
| Miller's House at Ruddels Mills | 3.2 miles | 1983 | |
| Joseph L. Stephens House | 3.4 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06001197 in Record Group 79. |
| Bourbon County | All 59 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.
- 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.