New Providence Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The New Providence Presbyterian Church near Salvisa, Kentucky is a historic Greek Revival-style church built between 1862 and 1865. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article New Providence Presbyterian Church (Salvisa, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 70 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. S of Salvisa on U.S. 127, Salvisa, 40372
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. building
Census division. Salvisa-McAfee
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75000806 - 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

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salvisa, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 8 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
May 1995	Tornado (F2)	Salvisa	8 hurt, $5,000,000	no account filed
May 2010	Flood	Salvisa	$100,000	Six to seven inches of rain fell over Mercer county from May 1-2. This caused major flooding on the Kentucky River that lasted many days before receding.
July 2006	Lightning	Salvisa	$50,000	A barn was struck by lightning and burned.
June 1998	Lightning	Salvisa	$50,000	Lightning struck an auto body shop causing major damage.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	$10,000	A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a barn down in Salvisa due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	$5,000	The public reported that a 175 foot steel tower used for amateur radio antennas was toppled by high winds on Bondville Road.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Salvisa	$5,000	DES reported a weak F0 tornado cut a narrow path of 2 miles along Gilbert's Creek damaging 2 storage buildings but 125 trees were uprooted. Resulting debris blocked off most of Oregon Road from US 127 to the Kentucky River where the tornado lifted.
June 2007	Lightning	Salvisa	$3,000	Lightning destroyed a small outbuilding.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	The National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed straight-line winds in Salvisa. There was a bunch of cedar and maple tree damage off of Old Louisville Road on the north side of Salvisa. Three homes experienced shingle, gutter and roof damage. \|\|A barndominium had the most significant damage with a large section of the roof thrown several hundred yards to the east southeast. Wind speeds were estimated between 75 and 80 mph, with a width of the damage of up to a half mile sporadically.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	A tree fell over a road near Salvisa.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	A tree fell down.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	A law enforcement official reported trees down on Old Louisville and Kirkwood Rd.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	Damage to several structures including a tobacco barn and a fence row near Salvisa.
August 1997	Hail	Salvisa	-	Dime size hail reported.
May 1995	Tornado	Salvisa	-	Citizen reports tornado touchdown.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salvisa	-	no account filed
May 1995	Tornado (F2)	Salvisa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Ambrose Burton House	1.2 miles	1983
James McAfee House	1.2 miles	1983
Peter Dunn House	1.4 miles	1989
Millwood	1.7 miles	1976
George McAfee House	1.9 miles	1983
McAfee Farm Historic District	1.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000806 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mercer County	All 70 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.