Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, Public domain. Via
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St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Thomas Church is a Catholic parish church of the Archdiocese of Louisville located in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States. A seminary, the first Catholic seminary on the American frontier, moved to the Howard-Flaget House on the church property in 1795 and continued to operate there until 1869.”
Wikipedia article St. Thomas Church and Howard-Flaget House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 44 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000931- 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
11 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House
between 1997 and 2014, burning about 34 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/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House: 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bardstown, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1974 and 2026: 50 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 25 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.
A NWS storm survey determined that a small microburst impacted Nelson County with the strongest winds estimated to be 95 mph. This resulted in the roofs of a bourbon warehouse facility to be blown off.
A storm not associated with the bow echo that crossed Louisville brought isolated large hail and damaging winds to Bardstown. Local Emergency Management reported several trees and power lines downed across Bardstown. An off duty NWS employee reported one inch hail and 60 mph winds. Strong winds damaged a hanger's door and tore some trim from the Old Terminal Building at the Nelson County Airport.
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.
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.
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