Photograph of Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum — Photograph by William G. Johnson, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Whitney M. Young Jr. Birthplace

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum is a historic house museum on the campus of the former Lincoln Institute in rural Shelby County, Kentucky, near Shelbyville. It was the birthplace and childhood home of Whitney M.”
Wikipedia article Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1972 · 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. Young, Whitney M., Jr., Birthplace - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SW of Simpsonville off U.S. 60, Simpsonville, 40067
When was it listed? October 1972
Category. building
Census division. Simpsonville
National Register reference number. 72000543 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whitney M. Young Jr. Birthplace in 2005, burning about 5 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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this property

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simpsonville, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 lightning. 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
August 2005	Lightning	Simpsonville	1 killed	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Simpsonville	$30,000	Local media reported golf-ball sized hail that fell from a supercell in Simpsonville.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	$15,000	The local emergency manager reported that a large tree fell on a house in Simpsonville.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	$5,000	A spotter reported numerous trees down in the Simpsonville and Todd's Point areas. Strong winds destroyed 3 of 4 bay doors at the Simpsonville Fire Station.
June 2009	Lightning	Simpsonville	$5,000	Lightning struck a house and started a structural fire.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	Trees were in the power lines on Buck Creek Road.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	There were trees in the power lines on Todds Point Road.
March 2021	Hail	Simpsonville	-	A photo of quarter size hail near Simpsonville was posted to social media.
May 2016	Hail	Simpsonville	-	A trained spotter reported hail 1 inch in diameter.
June 2015	Hail	Simpsonville	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail.
June 2015	Hail	Simpsonville	-	A trained spotter reported to the NWS hail 1 inch in diameter.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	The Shelby county emergency manager reported wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	Power lines were reported down in the Simpsonville area.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	Trees were downed.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	Trees were downed.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	A tree and a power line were downed.
May 2004	Hail	Simpsonville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Simpsonville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Simpsonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Lincoln Institute Complex	0.5 miles	1988
Bryan House	1.0 miles	1988
Simpsonville Christian Church	1.0 miles	1988
Bank of Simpsonville	1.2 miles	1988
Simpsonville Methodist Church	1.2 miles	1988
Old Stone Inn	1.5 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000543 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 142 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.