St. Elmo School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Christian County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 12225 Bradshaw Road, Pembroke, 42266
When was it listed? December 2023
Category. building
Census division. Oak Grove-Pembroke
National Register reference number. 100009724 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Elmo School between 2005 and 2010, burning about 179 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
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
20 August 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2008	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MURRY
2 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	93 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEERE
17 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Storms near this property

35 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pembroke, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	1 hurt, $20,000	In Hopkinsville, a 22-year-old man sustained an arm injury when a tree landed on his moving car on Highway 380. The injury required hospital treatment, but it was not life-threatening. Another tree fell in Pembroke. Power outages were reported. A wind gust to 57 mph was measured along the west bypass in Hopkinsville at 2:57 P.M. CDT.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Pembroke	$100,000	Barns and sheds were destroyed. Trees were uprooted or broken. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph. The average path width was 250 yards.
May 2005	Tornado (F1)	Pembroke	$100,000	A funnel cloud skipped along the ground near the Christian/Todd County line. This was the first of two touchdowns of the same tornado. Along U.S. Highway 68 just inside Christian County, near the Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site, a few sheds and small buildings were unroofed. Numerous trees were blown down. This first touchdown in Christian County was about 1/8 mile long and 100 yards wide. Peak winds were estimated near 80 MPH. About a mile to the east in Todd County, there was a second brief touchdown of this tornado.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$70,000	A 1000-pound factory awning was blown off, carried by the wind approximately 70 yards, and landed on top of several vehicles. A few of the vehicles were destroyed.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$50,000	Three utility poles were broken, and shingles were missing from a roof.
July 2004	Lightning	Pembroke	$50,000	A historic church built in 1852, the Salem Baptist Church, was destroyed by a lightning-caused fire.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$40,000	Several trees were uprooted across the community. Power lines were knocked down. There were homes with roof damage.
February 2025	Flash Flood	Pembroke	$20,000	Flash flooding made several roads in Pembroke impassable, including Mason Lane at Highway 115, Spring Street, and south Main Street. Flood waters were just deep enough to get into two homes on East Nashville Street in Pembroke.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$10,000	A few trees and power lines were down.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$6,000	A section of roofing was removed from an attached garage.
April 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pembroke	$4,000	Several trees or tree limbs were blown down. Minor damage occurred to a home, consisting mainly of gutter damage. The tornado track was mostly across fields. The tornado was photographed near the initial touchdown and was also observed less than one mile from Pembroke. Peak winds were estimated near 75 mph.
October 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pembroke	$4,000	A damage survey revealed a weak tornado caused a path of intermittent tree damage. Several large tree limbs were blown down, one whole tree was down, and tin was damaged on a couple of barns. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph. The damage path ended near the junction of Highway 1453 and U.S. Highway 41.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$3,000	A few trees were down.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Pembroke	$3,000	On the west side of Pembroke, a small creek rose out of its banks and came within four inches of entering a home. The residents were evacuated as a precaution. Running floodwaters crossed a main road into town.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$1,000	no account filed
February 2025	Hail	Pembroke	-	An isolated storm produced hail the size of a nickel as it moved northeast between Pembroke and Hopkinsville.
December 2019	Flash Flood	Pembroke	-	On the northwest side of Hopkinsville near Christian County High School, a city street was closed by high water, and an apartment complex was inaccessible. On the southwest side of Hopkinsville, flooding caused a road closure at the intersection of Highway 695 and a city street. Flooding was reported on U.S. Highway 41 near Pembroke.
November 2019	Flood	Pembroke	-	Up to six inches of water was flowing over U.S. Highway 41 near Pembroke.
November 2018	Flood	Pembroke	-	Water was over Highway 115 in Pembroke. Water was over several city streets in Hopkinsville.
March 2017	Hail	Pembroke	-	This hail occurred at the Pembroke fire station.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Pembroke	-	A co-operative observer measured 2.33 inches in the past 12 hours. The two-day storm total was 2.88 inches.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Pembroke	-	A trained spotter reported more than one inch of rain in 30 minutes.
May 2010	Heavy Rain	Pembroke	-	Standing water was over a road, and yards were flooded. Water encroached on two houses in town. Creeks were full.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Pembroke	-	Torrential rains occurred, with an evening rainfall amount of three inches reported by the general public.
July 2003	Heavy Rain	Pembroke	-	Persistent thunderstorms produced heavy rain, estimated as much as 1 to 3 inches over the east and southeast sides of the county. Water was over a local road in the eastern part of the county.
June 2015	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 2010	Funnel Cloud	Pembroke	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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 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
Glen Burnie	1.6 miles	1979
Cedar Grove	3.8 miles	1977
Maplewood	4.2 miles	1979
Simon French House	4.3 miles	1979
Elk Grove Farm	5.0 miles	1979
Rich Grove	5.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009724 in Record Group 79.
Christian County	All 51 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.