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One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
H. P. Bottom House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Bottom, H. P., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. NW of Perryville on Old Mackville Rd., Perryville, 40468
- When was it listed? January 1976
- Category. building
- Census division. Perryville
- National Register reference number. 76000851 - 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 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of H. P. Bottom House between 1999 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 October 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DEEP CREEK |
Storms near this property
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | $25,000 | Local media reported several trees and power lines down across the county. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Perryville | $25,000 | There were numerous reports of flooded and closed roads countywide. Five homes were evacuated due to rising water in a subdivision of Perryville. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Perryville | $20,000 | Many roads in Perryville are impassable. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | There were trees down on the 4500 block of Webster Road. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Water was over the roadway at Harrodsburg Road and Claunch Road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was down on North Bragg Street at First Street. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree fell down and was covering the road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was uprooted and covering US 68. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Smith Street was closed and impassable between first and third streets due to high water. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Mitchellsburg Road was impassable due to flooding. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several trees were reported down in Perryville. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | The Boyle County Emergency Manager reported streets flooded along the Chaplin River in Perryville. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Chaplin River was out of its banks and flowing over roadways in Perryville. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A law enforcement official trees down across the area. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was downed across Battlefield Road. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several large trees were blown down on Battlefield Rd. in Perryville Battlefield State Park. Some of the trees were up to 22 inches in diameter. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated at 60 mph as well as pea sized hail. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several trees down. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Perryville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederate Monument in Perryville | 0.7 miles | 1997 | |
| Union Monument in Perryville | 0.7 miles | 1997 | |
 | Perryville Battlefield | 0.8 miles | 1966 |
| Hankla-Walker House | 1.0 miles | 1998 | |
| Johnson-Brinton House | 1.4 miles | 1973 | |
 | Crawford House | 1.7 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000851 in Record Group 79. |
| Boyle County | All 99 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.