Memorial Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1400 N. Jackson Hwy., Hardyville, 42746
When was it listed? September 2025
Category. building
Also known as. Historic Public Schools of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Hardyville
National Register reference number. 100012242 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Memorial Elementary School between 2006 and 2019, burning about 48 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	8

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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FAIRVIEW CHURCH ROAD
12 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SCOTT FIRE
19 February 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOWARD FIRE
24 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KNOX CREEK

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardyville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
March 1997	Tornado (F1)	Hardyville	$85,000	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Hardyville	-	Golf ball sized hail was observed near the intersection of Kentucky Route 88 and US Route 31E.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down blocking Shady Lane Church Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	The Kentucky Mesonet station in Hart County recorded a 53 knot gust.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	A 70 mph gust was measured at the Hart county mesonet.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	Trees were downed across Tommy Toms Road.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	Power lines were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	A spotter reported a 65 mph wind gust. Downed trees were also blocking roads in the area.
June 2004	Hail	Hardyville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardyville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Pearce-Wheeler Farm	4.2 miles	2005
Dr. Lewis Barrett House	6.3 miles	1980
Hart County Courthouse	6.4 miles	1980
F. A. Smith House	6.5 miles	1980
Hart County Deposit Bank and Trust Company Building	6.5 miles	1980
Munfordville Presbyterian Church and Green River Lodge No.88	6.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012242 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.