Oldtown Covered Bridge

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Oldtown Covered Bridge, near Oldtown, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Oldtown Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greenup County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1880.

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 Oldtown off KY 1, Oldtown, 41144
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Wurtland
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 76000893 - 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

114 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Oldtown Covered Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,950 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LYNKS
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oldtown, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 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
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$20,000	Numerous trees were fallen along Route 1. Electricity was off for 6 hours.
April 2014	Flood	Oldtown	$15,000	The accumulative affects of the rounds of showers and thunderstorms caused many streams to flood and close county roads along the usual low spots. Minor flooding was reported. Tygarts Creek was just one example. No dwellings received damage.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$3,000	Several trees were blown down along Route 784 and Route 1 near the Carter County line.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$2,000	Trees were blown down along North Fork Road.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Oldtown	$2,000	Creeks, such as Lost and Laurel, flooded and Route 1 was closed.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$1,500	Multiple trees were blown down in the area of Old Town.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$1,000	Two trees were blown down along Route 1 near Oldtown.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldtown	$1,000	Trees were blown down along Route 784.
April 2024	Flood	Oldtown	$500	Fraziers Branch exceeded its banks and caused flooding along Brown Pond Road.
May 2018	Hail	Oldtown	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Oldtown	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Oldtown	-	no account filed
December 2005	Hail	Oldtown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000893 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenup 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.
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.