BlockFrom the record
One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lincoln Heritage House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Elizabethtown on Freeman Lake, Elizabethtown, 42701
- When was it listed? March 1973
- Category. building
- Census division. Elizabethtown
- National Register reference number. 73000805 - 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
14 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Heritage House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOBLEY |
| 28 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | N. DIXIE H |
| 22 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RAVENSWOOD FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln Heritage House: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandstone Roadcut | Silica | Prospect | ||
| Cen-Ken Stone Plant No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| No. 1 Fort Knox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1974Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1974: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 57 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1974 | Tornado (F4) | Elizabethtown | 2 killed, 57 hurt, $250,000 | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Helm Place | 0.6 miles | 1976 |
 | Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District | 1.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Samuel B. Thomas House | 1.6 miles | 1988 |
 | Elizabethtown Armory | 1.6 miles | 2002 |
 | Samuel Robertson House | 1.8 miles | 1988 |
 | Horatio Wintersmith House | 1.8 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000805 in Record Group 79. |
| Hardin County | All 89 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.