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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Bath County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sharpsburg Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. Main Street, Back Street, Public Street, Camp Street, West Tunnel Hill Road, Forest Avenue, Sharpsburg, 40374
- When was it listed? July 2024
- Category. district
- Census division. Sharpsburg
- National Register reference number. 100009521 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sharpsburg Historic District between 2000 and 2016, burning about 68 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 | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | NORTH CONVICT RD |
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROGERS MILL |
| 7 February 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 February 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 October 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PISGAH ROAD |
Storms near this property
40 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpsburg, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 26 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Sharpsburg | $200,000 | A quick spin up occurred as winds descended to the ground in NW Bath County, hitting a house on top of a ridge off of Springfield Road (south of Sharpsburg), along with trees and a barn in the adjacent holler to the east. From this point forward, the event became more straight-line wind dominated and continued to be so throughout much of the county. The house sustained substantial damage. A large section of roofing was removed, including a large hole into the master closet. All windows around entire house had been bowed in, bending the frames and cracking the molding around them. Grass, dirt, insulation, and other small debris was also plastered to windows, doors, and siding on all sides of the house, including on all sides of a sheltered screen in porch. Flashing was also removed from inside the sheltered porch. Basement doors on other side of sheltering retaining wall were buckled in by the force of the wind (and possible change in pressure). House also had multiple cracks along the exterior brick-work that were not there before. In addition, it moved several things outside, including a large trailer holding the front of a combine, twisting the tongue of the trailer. Debris from the house was blown several hundred yards away, and some has not yet been found. Farther down from the house, numerous trees and a barn was hit. The barn is still standing, but sustained substantial damage to the SE corner. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $50,000 | Bath county dispatch reported that 8 to 10 barns had been blown down in the Sharpsburg and Bethel areas. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sharpsburg | $30,000 | A trained spotter witnessed golf ball to baseball size hail in Sharpsburg. The hail caused damage to cars in the area including broken windshields. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $30,000 | Multiple trees were blown down in Sharpsburg and Bethel. All of the electricity was out in Bethel. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $10,000 | Five to six trees down on roads north of Sharpsburg. Power out. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $8,000 | A hay barn was blown over near the community of Stoops, just south of Sharpsburg. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $5,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. A billboard was also blown over and power lines were downed. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $4,000 | Trees were blown down on Hwy 36 near the Nicholas county line. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $2,000 | Two large trees had to be removed from roadways. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Sharpsburg | $1,000 | Low water bridges on Bald Eagle Road were flooded. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Sharpsburg | $1,000 | KY 11 closed near Fairview and Hwy 36 due to flash flooding. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Swath of wind went through fields, passing through Gossett Road in a path about 600 yards long. Numerous trees were snapped along the tree lines and along the road, with all debris laying eastward. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | County highway department reported numerous trees blown down along KY-11 between Sharpsburg and Bethel. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Dispatch reported trees downed south of Sharpsburg, on both Springfield Road and West Tunnel Hill Road. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | The roofs were blown off structures in Sharpsburg at 167 Main Street and 120 Back Street. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Numerous trees were blown down on Hwy 11. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | A few trees were blown down along Hwy 36 between Owingsville and Sharpsburg. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | A barn and the front porches of two residences were damaged on Ramey and Long Branch Roads. A tree was also downed by the winds. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were blown down through out Sharpsburg. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | A National Weather Service storm damage survey team and Bath county emergency management surveyed damage at a farm off Hwy 1198. It was determined that a microburst occurred, destroying a barn and uprooting and snapping the trunks of several trees. Debris from the barn was scattered in a northeasterly direction up to 400 yards away from where the barn originally stood. It is estimated that winds reach upwards of 90 mph in the microburst. |
| October 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Sharpsburg | - | An EF-1 tornado, with peak winds of 90 mph, touched down near Sharpsburg. The path length was about 0.6 miles with a maximum width of 50 yards. The tornado damaged three barns while it was on the ground. There was also sporadic damage to trees along the tornado's path. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were blown down with a road closed near Sharpsburg. Barn roofs were also reported to have been blown off. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were blown down and onto power lines. |
| March 2013 | Flash Flood | Sharpsburg | - | Highwya 36 was closed due to flash flooding between mile markers 2 and 6. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | Golf ball size hail was reported near Olympia, Bethel, and Sharpsburg. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | A tree was blown down and across West Tunnel Hill Rd. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Sharpsburg | - | Highway 36 West had 2 to 3 feet of water running over it at Bald Eagle Ridge. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Six trees were down and partially blocked Ratliff Road, Richland Road, and Route 11. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Numerous trees were down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were down. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were reported down along with a telephone line along West Tunnel Hill Road about 4 miles southeast of Sharpsburg. Also, three quarter inch hail was reported in Sharpsburg. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Sharpsburg | - | no account filed |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Presbyterian Church | 3.9 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009521 in Record Group 79. |
| Bath County | All 9 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.