Park Hills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Dixie Hwy., Montague, Breckenridge, Sleepy Hollow Rds., Old State, Arlington Rds., St. James Ave, Park Hills, 41011
When was it listed? March 2008
Category. district
Census division. Covington
National Register reference number. 07001252 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Park Hills Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Avril Co/ Cincinnati, Ohio	Tin, Lead, Antimony	Unknown

Storms near this property

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park Hills, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hills	$4,000	Several trees were uprooted and multiple large limbs were also knocked down at Devou Park.
March 2008	Flood	Park Hills	$3,000	Several roads were flooded throughout the county.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hills	$1,000	A tree was downed along Winding Way.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Park Hills	$1,000	Multiple roads were closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall in the Covington area including 12th Street.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hills	$500	A large tree branch was knocked down.
June 2020	Flood	Park Hills	-	Five inches of water was flowing down the street and sidewalks.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Park Hills	-	Interstate 75 was shut down due to high water near 12th Street.
June 2014	Flood	Park Hills	-	A lane along Interstate 75 was closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
May 2019	Hail	Park Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenton 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
Lewisburg Historic District	0.6 miles	1993
Battery Bates and Battery Coombs	0.9 miles	2018
Bavarian Brewing Company	0.9 miles	1996
Veteran's Monument in Covington	1.0 miles	1997
Linden Grove Cemetery	1.0 miles	2001
GAR Monument in Covington	1.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001252 in Record Group 79.
Kenton County	All 76 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.