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Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home

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

From the record

“The Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home is a National Historic Landmark located in the Riverside Drive Historic District of Covington, Kentucky, overlooking the Licking River, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio. The two-and-one-half story brick domicile, built in 1821 and one of the two oldest buildings in Kenton County, Kentucky, is the boyhood home of Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of the Boy Scouts of America.”

Wikipedia article Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Beard, Daniel Carter, Boyhood Home - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 322 E. 3rd St., Covington, 41011
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Covington
  • National Register reference number. 66000360 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 6 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996LightningCovington1 hurt, $50,000no account filed
July 2013Flash FloodCovington$50,000In addition to other flash flooding in the area, basements were flooded in Covington and Park Hills due to heavy rainfall.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCovington$30,000Trees were downed throughout Covington due to thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees fell on cars.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindCovington$10,000A tree fell onto a car on Garrard Street.
July 2010Flash FloodCovington$10,000Several cars were floating in high water due to heavy rainfall.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCovington$10,000Several trees were downed throughout the city. One tree fell on a house, causing some minor roof damage.
December 2000Flash FloodCovington$10,000Heavy rainfall caused Banklick Creek to flood Pioneer Park and Cody road.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCovington$8,000A large tree was blown on to a house in Covington, causing major structural damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000Several trees were downed.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000A roof was partially torn off of an apartment building due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2008FloodCovington$5,000Several roads were flooded and closed. Banklick Creek was out of its banks in a few locations.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000Several trees and power lines were downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000County DES reported several trees uprooted. Power lines blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCovington$3,000Numerous trees downed.
August 2016Flash FloodCovington$2,000Several roads and underpasses were flooded. In addition, some cars were struck in high water.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCovington$1,000A large tree was knocked down along W. 10th St. near Russell Street.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCovington$1,000Six to ten inch diameter branches were torn from several trees on the south side of town.
April 2011Flash FloodCovington$1,000Two to three feet of water was over a road due to heavy rainfall.
July 2010Flash FloodCovington$1,000About three feet of water covered an intersection due to heavy rainfall.
February 2018Flash FloodCovington-Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
April 2017Flash FloodCovington-High water was reported at Madison Ave. and 17th Street.
March 2006Flash FloodCovington-Several roads were flooded.
July 2006Flash FloodCovington-Banklick Creek rose out of its banks, flooding portions of Pioneer Park. Several roads were flooded and closed as well.
May 2003Flash FloodCovington-River Road flooded and was closed.
April 2024HailCovington-no account filed
May 2018HailCovington-no account filed
April 2012HailCovington-no account filed
April 2012HailCovington-no account filed
March 2012HailCovington-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
August 2000HailCovington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Riverside Drive Historic Districtunder 500 feet1971
Hearne House0.2 miles1974
Ohio Riverside Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.2 miles1987
JOHN W. HUBBARD (sternwheeler)0.2 miles1982
Northern Bank of Kentucky0.2 miles1998
Licking Riverside Historic District0.3 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kenton CountyAll 76 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.