Perryville Battlefield

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site is a 745-acre (3.01 km2) park near Perryville, Kentucky. The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust.”
Wikipedia article Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Perryville on U.S. 150, Perryville, 40468
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Census division. Perryville
National Register reference number. 66000356 - 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Perryville Battlefield between 1999 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2019	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEEP CREEK

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this property

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	$25,000	Local media reported several trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Perryville	$25,000	There were numerous reports of flooded and closed roads countywide. Five homes were evacuated due to rising water in a subdivision of Perryville.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Perryville	$20,000	Many roads in Perryville are impassable.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	There were trees down on the 4500 block of Webster Road.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Perryville	-	Water was over the roadway at Harrodsburg Road and Claunch Road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A tree was down on North Bragg Street at First Street.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A tree fell down and was covering the road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A tree was uprooted and covering US 68.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Perryville	-	Smith Street was closed and impassable between first and third streets due to high water.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Perryville	-	Mitchellsburg Road was impassable due to flooding.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	Several trees were reported down in Perryville.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Perryville	-	The Boyle County Emergency Manager reported streets flooded along the Chaplin River in Perryville.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Perryville	-	Chaplin River was out of its banks and flowing over roadways in Perryville.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A law enforcement official trees down across the area.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A tree was downed across Battlefield Road.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	Several large trees were blown down on Battlefield Rd. in Perryville Battlefield State Park. Some of the trees were up to 22 inches in diameter.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated at 60 mph as well as pea sized hail.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	A few trees were blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Perryville	-	Several trees down.
March 2003	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Perryville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Union Monument in Perryville	0.2 miles	1997
Confederate Monument in Perryville	0.2 miles	1997
Hankla-Walker House	0.4 miles	1998
H. P. Bottom House	0.8 miles	1976
Crawford House	1.8 miles	1976
Johnson-Brinton House	2.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyle County	All 99 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.