Alexander-Ford Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Daviess County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 5785 Highway 144, Thruston, 42303
When was it listed? September 2025
Category. building
Census division. Whitesville-Philpot
National Register reference number. 100012240 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alexander-Ford Farmhouse between 2010 and 2013, burning about 4 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	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POWER TOWER
29 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLD CAR

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alexander-Ford Farmhouse: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Daviess County Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kapco Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
No. 9 Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
W. L. Delker Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Daviess 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
Willow Hill	1.3 miles	1982
Haphazard	3.3 miles	1975
McKay-Thornberry House	4.0 miles	1984
Le Vega Clements House	4.5 miles	1986
Monarch-Payne House	4.5 miles	1986
Felix Grimes House	4.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012240 in Record Group 79.
Daviess County	All 38 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.