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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cub Run Elementary School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 170 E. Gap Hill Rd., Cub Run, 42729
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic Public Schools of Kentucky MPS
- Census division. Munfordville
- National Register reference number. 100011665 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cub Run Elementary School between 1998 and 2018, burning about 103 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 | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PINEHURST BAY |
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Mammoth Cave National Park | CENTER POINT |
| 12 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cub Run, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cub Run | - | Trees were blown down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cub Run | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cub Run | - | Trees down across Highway 728 at Cub Run. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cub Run | - | Spotters reported trees down. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Cub Run | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cub Run | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner House | 5.8 miles | 2004 | |
 | Chapline Building | 7.3 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011665 in Record Group 79. |
| Hart County | All 21 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.