St. Jerome's Catholic Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Graves County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 20 KY 339, 10225 KY 80 W., Fancy Farm, 42039
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. district
Census division. Fancy Farm
National Register reference number. 13001052 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of St. Jerome's Catholic Church Complex between 1998 and 2018, burning about 298 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
24 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	227 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOT ASH
14 May 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Jerome's Catholic Church Complex: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	S.S. Campbell Farm Prospect	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this property

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fancy Farm, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flood, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$50,000	A microburst along the leading edge of a bow echo produced substantial damage at a farm. The metal top was blown off a cinder block silo. There was siding damage at a residence. A large section of a chick house lost its roof. The path length was about 500 yards, and the width was only 50 yards.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$20,000	Trees and power lines were down along Kentucky Highways 80 and 1686. Trees were covering the whole road.
August 2023	Lightning	Fancy Farm	$10,000	A house caught fire due to a lightning strike.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$10,000	Trees were down. Some trees were blocking roads.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$8,000	A National Weather Service storm survey found scattered tree damage in and near Fancy Farm. Several trees had large broken limbs or were uprooted. One house sustained gutter and roof damage from falling limbs. Estimated peak winds were 80 mph.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$8,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Fancy Farm area near Highway 121.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$7,000	There were several trees down across the northern half of the county, including the towns of Hickory, Fancy Farm, Melber, and Folsomdale.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$7,000	A single-wide mobile home on Highway 80 was pushed back about five feet. None of the occupants were injured. The back porch was destroyed.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$6,000	Trees were down. Corn was flattened.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$2,000	Numerous trees were downed, including seven or eight that fell across roads. Two houses were struck by falling trees, but only minor damage occurred to their roofs and gutters.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	$1,000	A large tree was down.
March 2025	Hail	Fancy Farm	-	Hail up to the size of quarters fell just south of Fancy Farm.
January 2020	Flood	Fancy Farm	-	Roads that are typically flooded after heavy rainfall were closed. This includes portions of Highway 1820 near the Carlisle County line.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fancy Farm	-	Numerous trees were blown down in northwest and north central Graves County. A large tree was snapped a few miles north of Fancy Farm. Roof damage was reported in Boaz.
March 2008	Flood	Fancy Farm	-	Water was over many roads, mostly secondary roads. One vehicle was heavily damaged after encountering a washout. Several creeks were out of their banks.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Fancy Farm	-	Considerable street flooding occurred in northern sections of the county, where the heaviest rain fell. Only some minor street flooding was reported at Mayfield.
December 2007	Flood	Fancy Farm	-	Three miles south of downtown Mayfield, creeks were out of their banks and over roads. Creeks were out of their banks along Highway 121 in central and southern Graves County.
May 2012	Hail	Fancy Farm	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Fancy Farm	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Fancy Farm	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graves 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001052 in Record Group 79.
Graves County	All 11 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.
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.