Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“Cherokee State Park was a blacks-only state park located in Marshall County, Kentucky, near Hardin, Kentucky. It was a complement to the then-whites-only Kentucky Lake State Park, which was nearby.”
Wikipedia article Cherokee State Park (Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
National Register reference number.08001120- 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
27 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee State Park
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Debris and open burning
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Cherokee State Park: 2 prospects.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hardin, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain.
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.
A long line of damaging straight-line winds occurred in southern Marshall County. Emergency management reported an overturned camper on Sid Darnell Road, while broadcast media reported multiple trees uprooted near the intersection of Murray Hwy and Union Hill Rd. ||An NWS damage survey found straight line thunderstorm wind damage impacted parts of southeast Marshall County, KY, on the evening of Friday, May 16, 2025. Impacted communities included Hardin, Olive, and Aurora. Estimated wind speeds were 74 to 85mph. Most damage was from scattered downed tree limbs and uprooted trees including several uprooted trees on Liberty School Rd.
Several trees were blown down, completely blocking a side street. A few power poles were snapped. A barn was severely damaged, and at least ten acres of corn were flattened.
Near the Calloway County border, there were six power poles down due to winds estimated around 70 MPH. Kentucky Route 80 was closed between Hardin and Aurora due to downed power poles.
Siding was blown off a house in Hardin. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph at the Eggners Ferry Bridge on U.S. Highway 68 at Kentucky Lake.
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.
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.
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