Hillsboro Covered Bridge

Built in 1860 (Burr Truss). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Hillsboro Covered Bridge, known locally as the "Hillsboro-Grange City Covered Bridge", spans Fox Creek in Fleming County adjacent to Kentucky Route 111, 13.6 miles (21.9 km) southeast of Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Probably built in the late 1860s, it was discontinued in 1968 when it was replaced fifty yards (46 m) upstream by a concrete bridge.”
Wikipedia article Hillsboro Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fleming County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1860, Burr Truss.

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. S of Hillsboro on KY 111, Hillsboro, 41049
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Hillsboro
When was it built? 1860
Architectural style. Burr Truss
National Register reference number. 76000881 - 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro Covered Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 169 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ISHMAEL RD
3 April 2013	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COLFAX RD
10 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PEASTICKS
8 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2018	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRANGE CITY
4 March 2011	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BEND LOCUST
28 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$75,000	Concrete silo blown down and two barns damaged.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$2,000	Tool shed was damaged by winds. Several large limbs were blown down.
July 2015	Lightning	Hillsboro	$1,000	A lightning strike killed a bull and four cows.
December 2013	Flood	Hillsboro	$1,000	Some minor flooding of area roadways was reported.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$1,000	There was a tree down near Hillsboro.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Hillsboro	-	County dispatch relayed numerous reports of flash flooding across the county. These included two homes in Flemingsburg on East Water Street having water in them with the road being shut down, as well as roads in Muses Mills, Tilton, and Hillsboro being closed as 2 to 4 inches of rain fell. The highest measured amount was in Sharkey at 3.59 inches.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Trees were blown down on Ringos Mills Rd.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Numerous trees were blown down in Hillsboro.
May 2007	Hail	Hillsboro	-	Nickel size hail was reported.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	One tree was down on Kentucky Highway 1013 South.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Numerous trees blown down.
July 2000	Hail	Hillsboro	-	1 inch diameter hail reported near Hillsboro.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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

2 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
	Ringos Mill Covered Bridge	2.5 miles	1976
	Goddard Bridge	7.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000881 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fleming County	All 10 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.