Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
From the record
“The Guthrie Historic District in Guthrie, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a 12.3 acres (5.0 ha) area deemed significant "for its connection with the L&N railroad and its associations with transportation in that area.”
Wikipedia article Guthrie Historic District (Guthrie, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
National Register reference number.11000801- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Guthrie Historic District
in 1999, 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
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Guthrie, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 4 flood.
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.
Flash flooding in Guthrie prompted evacuations on several residential streets. Homes began flooding before sunrise. Rescue boats were brought in from Muhlenberg County to assist with evacuations. Over 20 homes and businesses were flooded in the Guthrie area. Six of the homes were uninhabitable after sustaining major damage. Three to four feet of water covered the low-lying neighborhood that was evacuated. Standing water over Highways 181 and 171 slowed traffic, but the roads were passable. All county schools were closed due to flooding. A storm total rainfall of 7.81 inches was reported at the Kentucky mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton. Most of this rain fell in a 24-hour period. A Cocorahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow) network observer in Guthrie measured 7.10 inches.
An EF-1 tornado (with peak winds of 98mph) began north of Guthrie where several trees were snapped. The narrow tornado moved east across open fields where it flipped a pivot irrigation system. It destroyed a small outbuilding and damaged other smaller buildings nearby. Several power poles were snapped along US-79 and the intersection of US-79 and KY-848.
A microburst, as relayed by the county emergency management director, downed at least 50 to 100 trees or tree limbs along with power lines in a Guthrie subdivision. Damage area was less than 1/4 mile wide and less than 1/8 mile long. Some trees fell on cars, however tree damage to homes was very limited.
Baseball size hail was reported along Highway 181 about 4 miles northwest of Guthrie. Vehicles were dented. In Guthrie, quarter size hail was reported. The large hail was caused by a severe thunderstorm that drifted slowly north across the Guthrie area from Tennessee.
Water over the road was reported in Guthrie. Rainfall amounts of 2-4 inches had occurred between 0430CST-0830CST on the TN border. Flooding issues transitioned from flash flood to flood mid-morning.
Lingering flooding occurred through the day on the 8th, with additional rainfall during the evening continuing flooding issues into the overnight hours. Total rainfall accumulations in Guthrie reached a radar estimated 5-7 inches.
Several roads in Guthrie were closed due to high water. Water was over Highway 181 near U.S. Highway 41 west of Guthrie. Water was also reported over Highway 848 north of Guthrie. Two to three inches of rain fell over the area in the preceding 12 hours or so.
Thunderstorms moved slowly over the same local parts of southern Todd County. Radar estimated up to 2.7 inches of rain fell in three hours between Elkton and Guthrie. Several roads were reported under water at the time of heaviest rain.
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
3 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.
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.
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