Fort Heiman Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Calloway County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 1.6 mi. SE of New Concord off Fort Heiman Rd., New Concord, 42076
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. site
Census division. New Concord
National Register reference number. 76000856 - 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

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Fort Heiman Site between 1998 and 2019, burning about 217 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
26 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	MANESS
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	ANDERSON
25 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
28 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	NEW
2 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ODELL LAN
23 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	ROBBEARTS
11 June 2016	Fireworks	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	FT. HENRY #1

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Heiman Site: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lost Creek Church Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Lost Creek Ore Banks	Iron	Past Producer
Paynes Ore Banks	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Calloway County

Storms near this property

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Concord, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 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
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	$250,000	Extensive wind damage occurred at three resorts near the shore of Kentucky Lake in extreme southeast Calloway County. The resorts were mainly recreational vehicle trailer parks. At one resort containing about 100 trailers, about 25 trailers were damaged. The damage was primarily due to falling trees. Some damage was due to carports and tool sheds striking trailers. Two trailers were knocked off their block foundations. At a second resort, dock roofs were blown a distance of about 100 yards. Three boats were adrift. A marine anemometer recorded a wind gust to 80 MPH. Amateur radio operators reported a gust to 60 MPH at nearby Fort Heiman and a gust to 65 MPH at Hamlin. Trees and power lines were blown down. At least two dozen trees blocked roads.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	New Concord	$50,000	About a dozen trees and several tree tops were snapped. One car was completely destroyed by a large fallen tree. Mostly minor damage occurred to a couple of homes or garages. At least one power line was downed. Peak wind speeds were estimated near 85 mph.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	$30,000	At the Cypress Springs Resort along the shore of Kentucky Lake, about 6 miles southeast of New Concord, the roof of a restaurant was blown off. Elsewhere in the area, a few trees were down across roads.
May 2011	Flood	New Concord	$30,000	no account filed
December 2021	Tornado (EF1)	New Concord	$20,000	This long-track EF-3 tornado began in western Tennessee near Dyersburg (see Storm Data, Tennessee, Western). It crossed from the northeast corner of Henry County, Tennessee and barely clipped the Fort Heiman section of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield in the southeast extremity of Calloway County. There were numerous uprooted trees near the Kentucky Lake shoreline. Because much of the path remained over the waters of Kentucky Lake during its extremely brief time in Calloway County, the intensity and the path width are both very uncertain. The center of the tornado crossed Kentucky Lake into Stewart County, Tennessee (see Storm Data, Tennessee, Central) and then back into western KY in Christian County (see Storm Data, Kentucky, Western).
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	$15,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in a subdivision adjacent to Kentucky Lake. A healthy oak tree was blown over onto a house and damaged the roof.
February 2019	Flood	New Concord	$10,000	The level of Kentucky Lake was raised to 367 feet, about 8 feet above the normal summer pool stage. Low-lying parks, campgrounds, and marina parking lots near the lake were flooded. Some lake access roads were underwater. The lake level was still several feet below the record set during the spring of 2011 flood.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	$5,000	Several trees were blown down along Highways 280, 444, and 893 in the New Concord area.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	$3,000	A few large limbs were blown down.
February 2025	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	Much of Highway 121 from New Concord southeast to the state line was impassable due to flood waters.
February 2025	Flood	New Concord	-	Flood waters covered Highway 121 South near New Concord.
May 2024	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	Several inches of water running across KY 280 north of KY 121 South.
March 2017	Hail	New Concord	-	A hailstorm moved northeast across the New Concord and Hamlin areas, producing hail up to the size of golf balls.
October 2017	Flood	New Concord	-	Water topped a portion of Highway 121 between New Concord and the Tennessee state line.
December 2015	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	Numerous roads were closed across the county due to water over them, including portions of Highways 1429 and 1497.
August 2013	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	County deputy sheriffs reported water over Highway 121 near the bridge about two miles southeast of New Concord. Water was over several other roads, including spots on U.S. Highway 641. One county road was shut down due to about 18 inches of water over it. Radar estimated around two inches of rain fell near the southern border of Calloway County in two hours.
March 2005	Hail	New Concord	-	Dime to golf ball size hail fell in extreme southeast Calloway County, mainly near the Kentucky Lake shore. The largest hailstones reported were golf ball size at a resort on Kentucky Lake. Dime size hail fell in Hamlin. The hail fell in large quantities. An emergency management official reported 1-inch hail was still piled 4 inches deep 40 minutes after the storm.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	Pontoon boats were flipped over, and there was roof damage to a shed. Several large trees over a foot in diameter were knocked down. The damage occurred just off of Highway 280, at a boat dock on an inlet of Kentucky Lake.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	Three to four trees were down.
March 2020	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	New Concord	-	no account filed
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calloway 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Seclusaval	7.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000856 in Record Group 79.
Calloway County	All 18 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.