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Photograph of Colville Covered Bridge
Photograph by Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Colville Covered Bridge

Built in 1877 (Burr Truss). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · built in 1877, Burr Truss.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4 mi. NW of Millersburg over Hinkston Creek, Millersburg, 40361
  • When was it listed? December 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Millersburg
  • When was it built? 1877
  • Architectural style. Burr Truss
  • National Register reference number. 74000850 - 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.

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millersburg, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMillersburg1 killed, 2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
December 2013Tornado (EF1)Millersburg$150,000A survey confirmed that an EF-1 tornado was embedded within a severe squall line that brought widespread damage to northern Bourbon County. An area of concentrated damage was surveyed along Colville and Steele Ford Roads as well as Endicott Lane. Along these roads several large barns and outbuildings were either destroyed or heavily damaged. EF-1 damage was confirmed along Endicott Lane as some well-anchored barn footers were lifted up and thrown 75 yards. Several residents also reported a loud roar within torrential rain as the line of storms passed.
May 2011HailMillersburg$15,000Numerous reports of damaging hail around Millersburg. The Millersburg fire department reported a funnel cloud and 1.75 inch hail.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMillersburg$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree was over a road in Millersburg.
May 2020Flash FloodMillersburg-Highway 1879 was closed due to high water.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree fell on a house.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree was down on Steel Ford Road.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-Several trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-Trees were blown down.
May 2011HailMillersburg-no account filed
May 2000HailMillersburg-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon County

Newspapers printed here

420 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 104 issues, 420 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Bourbon News1881 to 1883

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
West Millersburg Rural Historic District1.8 miles2007
Miller's House at Ruddels Mills2.3 miles1983
Joseph L. Stephens House2.3 miles1983
Hubbard Williams House2.8 miles1983
Rudolph Mauck House3.1 miles1983
McKee-Vimont Row Houses3.4 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000850 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bourbon CountyAll 59 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.
  • 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.