Berea College Square Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Main St. (100 blk.), Short St. (200 blk.), Center St. (100 blk., 204 Center), Jackson St., (103-105) and Prospect St., Berea, 40404
When was it listed? December 2020
Category. district
Census division. Berea
National Register reference number. 100005899 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

82 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Berea College Square Commercial Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 June 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berea, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 10 injuries. 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
September 1996	Lightning	Berea	1 killed	no account filed
April 1996	Tornado (F2)	Berea	10 hurt, $12,800,000	no account filed
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Berea	$50,000	A mobile home was demolished.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Berea	$5,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Berea	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Berea	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Berea	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Berea	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Berea	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Berea	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Newspapers printed here

9,113 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,228 issues, 9,113 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Citizen	1899 to 1958

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
Boone Tavern Hotel	under 500 feet	1996
Lincoln Hall	0.1 miles	1974
Berea Downtown Commercial and Residential Historic District	0.5 miles	2020
Churchill Weavers	0.6 miles	2014
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Passenger Depot	0.6 miles	1975
Tate Building	0.6 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005899 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 75 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.