BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 2008 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ross-Hollenbach Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- Address. 4701 S. Hwy. 1694, Brownsboro, 40059
- When was it listed? July 2008
- Category. district
- Census division. Pewee Valley
- National Register reference number. 08000651 - 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
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ross-Hollenbach Farm in 2000, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ross-Hollenbach Farm: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood Mine Underground | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Crestwood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Oldham County Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsboro, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsboro | $15,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down at 7511 Highway 329 in Crestwood. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsboro | - | Power lines were down near Interstate 71. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsboro | - | Dispatch reported a tree and wires down in the roadway. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsboro | - | Trees were downed along Interstate 71. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsboro | - | Several large trees were blown down in the Glen Oaks area of northeast Jefferson 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Kellar House | 0.9 miles | 1979 | |
| Yewell-Snyder House | 0.9 miles | 1983 | |
| Carpenter-Smith House | 1.2 miles | 1982 | |
 | Harrods Creek Baptist Church and Rev. William Kellar House | 1.5 miles | 1976 |
| Wesley Methodist Church | 1.5 miles | 1987 | |
| Yager House | 1.8 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000651 in Record Group 79. |
| Oldham County | All 48 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.
- 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.