Grass Hills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. SE of Ghent on KY 47 at I-71, Ghent, 41083
When was it listed? August 1975
Category. building
Census division. Carrollton
National Register reference number. 75000743 - 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grass Hills in 2004, burning about 4 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	2

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
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ghent, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ghent	$3,000	Trees down.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ghent	$2,000	A tree was downed onto some power lines.
April 2020	Hail	Ghent	-	Quarter to near golf ball sized hail was reported.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Ghent	-	Several creeks and streams went out of their banks across the southern part of the county. High water was reported on a couple of roads.
June 2015	Hail	Ghent	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Ghent	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ghent	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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

3 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
Ghent Historic District	5.2 miles	1983
Henry Ogburn House	6.9 miles	1987
Richard Masterson House	7.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000743 in Record Group 79.
Carroll County	All 11 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.