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Photograph of Helm Place
Photograph by Elmer L. Foote, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Helm Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Helm Place is a white-columned, brick mansion built by John LaRue Helm in the 1830s, about one and a half miles north of the center of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”

Wikipedia article Helm Place (Elizabethtown, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1976 · 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

  • Address. 1.5 mi. N of Elizabethtown on U.S. 31W, Elizabethtown, 42701
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Elizabethtown
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 76000895 - 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Helm Place between 1999 and 2017, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMOBLEY
28 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryN. DIXIE H
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEST RHUDES CREEK
9 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Helm Place: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cen-Ken Stone Plant No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sandstone RoadcutSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

1 since 1974

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1974: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 57 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1974Tornado (F4)Elizabethtown2 killed, 57 hurt, $250,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lincoln Heritage House0.6 miles1973
Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District1.0 miles1980
Samuel B. Thomas House1.0 miles1988
Elizabethtown Armory1.2 miles2002
Samuel Robertson House1.2 miles1988
Benjamin Helm House1.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000895 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin CountyAll 89 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.