McBride's Harrods Creek Landing

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 5913 River Rd., Harrods Creek, 40059
When was it listed? February 2011
Category. district
Census division. East Jefferson
National Register reference number. 11000006 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McBride's Harrods Creek Landing: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jeffersonville Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Utica Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Alert Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martha E. Green Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utica Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utica Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrods Creek, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2015	Flood	Harrods Creek	1 killed	A 67-year old male was preparing to leave his home along the banks of the Ohio River as flood waters rose on March 14. Before he could reach his car, however, the flood waters overcame him. He was found 6 days later not far from his home.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	$75,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Three vehicles were destroyed when trees were blown on to them. Thirteen thousand customers were without power throughout Jefferson County.
February 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Harrods Creek	$2,000	This tornado is a continuation of the tornado that hit Utica in Clark county Indiana. After crossing the Ohio River the tornado moved into Harrods Creek. Numerous hardwood trees were snapped and a section of roof was blown off a house. The tornado was rated an EF-1 with a maximum wind speed of 100 mph and a width of 100 yards. The tornado lifted just west of US 42.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	There were trees reported down in the 7100 block of River Road and near the intersection of the Snyder and Interstate 71.
February 2018	Flood	Harrods Creek	-	River Road closed from Captains Quarters to Wolf Pen Branch due to high water and flooding.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	Local broadcast media reported downed trees near Prospect, Kentucky in the Wolf Pen and Springdale neighborhood areas.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	The local media reported numerous power lines downed by an outflow boundary ahead of a thunderstorm.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	A tree was blown down and siding blown off a house near the Fincastle area.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	Trees were downed in the Brownsboro Road area.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrods Creek	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2009	Hail	Harrods Creek	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Harrods Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Harrods Creek Historic District	0.4 miles	1991
Belleview	0.5 miles	1992
Ashbourne	0.5 miles	1983
Bingham-Hilliard Doll House	0.6 miles	1980
Shady Brook Farm	0.6 miles	1983
Merriwether House	0.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000006 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 526 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.
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.
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.