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Photograph of Hindman Ben Franklin
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hindman Ben Franklin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Hindman Ben Franklin is a historic commercial building in Hindman, Kentucky, which formerly held a Ben Franklin five-and-dime-type store. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”

Wikipedia article Hindman Ben Franklin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Knott County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 16 W. Main St., Hindman, 24873
  • When was it listed? August 2007
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 07000675 - 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hindman, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHindman$30,000Numerous trees were blown down county wide by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHindman$25,000Twenty two hundred people were reported without power across the county.
February 2019Heavy RainHindman$10,000Local media reported mudslides across a large portion of the county, including Kentucky Highway 2029 southwest of Bolyn and Kentucky Highway 550 west of Hindman where a power pole was knocked down. This latter slide was near Hindman Elementary School, resulting in power to the school being knocked out.
August 2014Flash FloodHindman$10,000Troublesome creek was reported to have come out of its banks in the Carrie area shortly after a public report of 1.78 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes. A trailer on Lick Branch Road was flooded. A foot of flowing water was reported over Highway 1102. Also, the Ball Creek Volunteer Fire Dept assisted several families that were trapped by flood waters in their homes near Highway 550 in Hindman between 730 pm EST and 800 pm EST.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHindman$10,000Severals trees were blown down on Highways 550, 1393, and 160.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHindman$10,000Numerous large limbs were torn from trees by thunderstorm wind gusts. A 14 inch diameter tree was also blown down.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHindman$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down on Perkins Mountain Road and Big Branch Road in the Perkins Mountain area by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindHindman$5,000no account filed
August 2022Flash FloodHindman$2,000Water was ponding onto the KY-2759 near Hindman. In addition, a mudslide also occurred, and a large tree is down. Power lines are also down in the area as a result. The road has been been closed.
May 2020Flash FloodHindman$1,000A local media outlet reported water of at least half a foot deep flowing over Ogden Branch Road northwest of Hindman.
March 2015FloodHindman$1,000Water was over Hwy 550.
March 2015FloodHindman$1,000Kentucky 550 at mile marker 11.25 was impassable due to flooding.
July 2015Flash FloodHindman$1,000Flash flooding was occurring off Hwy 160 near Frogtown.
July 2015Flash FloodHindman$1,000Flood waters were entering and surrounding peoples homes off Hwy 160 at Bear Branch.
December 2013FloodHindman$1,000Water was over the road on KY 550 at WKCB radio station.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHindman$1,000A 55 mph wind gust was measured by the Knott count mesonet site.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHindman$1,000Large limbs down across Route 550.
January 2025FloodHindman-Perkins Madden Road, south of the town Hindman was flooded, especially near the entrance to the Knott County Nursing Home, due to poor drainage.
January 2025Debris FlowHindman-A rockslide/debris flow was reported along KY-160 across from the Golden Apple Fruit Market, southeast of Hindman.
August 2022Flash FloodHindman-Water was reported on the road in several locations along KY-550 in Hindman.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHindman-A tree was downed on KY-3391, just past Knott County Central High School.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHindman-A tree and numerous limbs were blown down in Hindman.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHindman-This report made by the Big Sandy Recc. Trees and power lines were blown down county wide with 3 power outages reported.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHindman-A tree was blown down on Hwy 550 in Hindman.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHindman-A couple of trees were blown down on Hwy 2029 just off of Hwy 80.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHindman-A couple of trees were blown down on Hwy 550 west of Hindman.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHindman-The mesonet site 5 miles north of Hindman measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 69 mph.
July 2011Heavy RainHindman-Almost 3 inches of rain fell northeast of Hindman between 2 and 4 am. The bulk of the rain occurred between 2 and 3 am.
May 2010Flash FloodHindman-Streams were over roads or bridges in Hindman.
April 2007Flash FloodHindman-Route 550 closed due to flooding.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHindman-Large tree limbs down county wide.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHindman-Large tree limbs down near Vest.
January 2004Flash FloodHindman-More than a foot of water covered Kentucky Highway 550 West and Kentucky Highway 160.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHindman-Two trees with a diameter of about one foot were down.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindHindman-Large tree limbs were down.
June 2003Flash FloodHindman-Water was flowing across Kentucky Highway 60.
May 2003HailHindman-An ambulance driver reported the severe hail along Kentucky Highway 80.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHindman-Trees down.
July 2000Flash FloodHindman-Heavy rains caused water to cross Route 80 at a depth of 2 to 3 feet. Mudslides and rockslides were also reported in the area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHindman-A tree was down across HWY 160 near Hindman.
July 1999HailHindman-Baseball sized hail was reported in the town of Hindman.
April 2006HailHindman-no account filed
August 2001HailHindman-no account filed
May 1999HailHindman-no account filed
January 1998HailHindman-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindHindman-no account filed
October 1994HailHindman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knott 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000675 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knott CountyAll 5 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.