Walcott Covered Bridge

Built in 1824. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Walcott Covered Bridge is situated at a point where Kentucky Highway 1159 used to cross Locust Creek in Bracken County, Kentucky. A concrete bridge was constructed in 1954, about 200 feet northwest of the covered bridge and the older structure was then bypassed by highway traffic.”
Wikipedia article Walcott Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bracken County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1824.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3.5 mi. N of Brooksville on SR 1159 over Locust Creek, Brooksville, 41004
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. structure
Census division. Augusta
When was it built? 1824
National Register reference number. 75000738 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walcott Covered Bridge between 2002 and 2004, burning about 21 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	1
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
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this property

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooksville, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 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
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	2 killed, 3 hurt, $100,000	Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home killing 2 and injuring 3 people. Another mobile home was damaged and trees were knocked down.
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Brooksville	$750,000	The tornado began along Brooksville-Powersville Road west of Hamilton Road. Tree damage was observed in the area along with some minor damage to a home east of Hamilton Road. Several barns were heavily damaged or destroyed in the area. Additional observed damage was located on Michaels Lane and McNamara Lane where several barns were damaged. The tornado continued eastward, crossing Brooksville-Germantown Road, causing damage to more barns, outbuildings, and trees. Based on radar data and observed damage provided by the public on social media, it is believe the tornado dissipated north of Brooksville-Germantown Road west of Locust Creek.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$30,000	Significant property damage was reported on Delaney Road. This included an outbuilding destroyed, a porch damaged, loss of roofing shingles and trees and large limbs knocked down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$15,000	A mobile home was moved onto Hamilton Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$15,000	A barn was blown over along State Route 22 in the eastern part of the county.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$10,000	Two utility poles were snapped off and a tree fell on electric lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$8,000	Multiple trees were knocked down in the Brookville area, including one in a house on Woodward Ave.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$8,000	A car port was blown down at a residence.
November 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$6,000	A carport was destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$6,000	Trees and power lines were downed across the county.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$5,000	Several trees were downed in the Brooksville area.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down throughout the county. A barn was damaged near the intersection of Highway 18 and Hamilton Road.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$5,000	Trees downed across several roads.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$5,000	Numerous trees knocked down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$4,000	Several trees were knocked down on Brooksville-Germantown Road.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$3,000	A tobacco barn was destroyed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$3,000	Several trees were downed.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$3,000	Several power poles and a tree were downed.
May 2011	Flood	Brooksville	$2,000	Roads were closed due to high water.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$2,000	Large limbs were knocked down.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$1,000	A tree was downed onto a road.
April 2014	Flood	Brooksville	-	Water several feet deep from an overflowing creek was reported over Jett Road due to heavy rain. A few other roads in the county also were reported to have high water over them.
July 1994	Hail	Brooksville	-	Tobacco crops flattened East of Augusta. Numerous reports of trees and power lines downed.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Brooksville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Brooksville	-	no account filed
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Brooksville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Mordecai Chalfant House	2.4 miles	1987
Rock Spring Warehouse	2.5 miles	1987
Bradford School House	4.0 miles	2003
Bracken County Infirmary	4.8 miles	1979
Confederate Monument in Augusta	5.4 miles	1997
Alfonso McKibben House	5.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000738 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bracken County	All 23 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.