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One of 3 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall
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. 113 N. Main Street, Williamstown, 41097
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Williamstown-Dry Ridge
- National Register reference number. 100011687 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall between 1998 and 2006, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 January 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
30 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamstown, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $30,000 | A mobile home was blown off of its foundation. A few cars were blown into other cars and numerous trees were knocked down from the 500 block of North Main Street, to east of town. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $30,000 | Part of Helton Road was washed out. Several roads and businesses were also flooded in Williamstown. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees, some of which fell on power lines and one of which fell on a mobile home. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $15,000 | Several small buildings were leveled at the Cherry Hill mobile park. A band trailer was flipped onto its side. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $15,000 | A church lost its roof in Dry Ridge. Trees were downed from Williamstown to Dry Ridge. |
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $4,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $2,000 | A bridge was reported to be underwater due to heavy rainfall. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were knocked down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $2,000 | Large limbs were downed. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $250 | A tree was knocked down in Williamstown. |
| April 2021 | Flood | Williamstown | - | High water was reported on Cynthiana Road. |
| March 2015 | Heavy Rain | Williamstown | - | A few roads were closed due to high water in the Williamstown area. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | The spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | The spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Williamstown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sherman Tavern | 6.4 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011687 in Record Group 79. |
| Grant County | All 3 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.