BlockFrom the record
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Helena United Methodist Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6479 Helena Rd., Helena, 41055
- When was it listed? February 2010
- Category. building
- Census division. Maysville
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 09001311 - 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
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Helena United Methodist Church between 2014 and 2016, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PLEASANT VALLEY RD. |
| 11 November 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | REID ST. |
Storms near this property
12 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Helena, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 6 flood, 4 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Helena | $5,000 | Several trees fell onto State Route 324, closing the road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Helena | $3,000 | A few trees were downed on Mill Creek Road. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Helena | $1,000 | Mill Creek rose briefly and flooded a roadway due to heavy rainfall. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Helena | - | Helena Road (KY 324) was closed due to high water. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Helena | - | Moving water was reported over Mill Creek Road near KY-11. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Helena | - | High water was flowing across Helena Road. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Helena | - | Sate Route 324 was closed due to high water. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Helena | - | Mill Creek Road was closed due to high water. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Helena | - | Mill Creek Road was closed due to high water. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Helena | - | Mill Creek Road remained closed due to high water. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Helena | - | High water was reported on Helena Road. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Helena | - | Kentucky Highway 324 was closed at Mill Creek, just to the west of Weedonia. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring House at Flat Fork | 2.8 miles | 1987 | |
 | Poague House | 3.1 miles | 1987 |
| Rust House | 3.5 miles | 1978 | |
| May's Lick Negro School | 3.8 miles | 2018 | |
 | Mays Lick Consolidated School | 3.9 miles | 1982 |
| Springhouse in Mays Lick | 3.9 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09001311 in Record Group 79. |
| Mason County | All 43 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.
- 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.