James Ellis Stone Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Nicholas County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ellis, James, Stone Tavern - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. U.S. 68, Ellisville, 40311
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. building
Census division. Headquarters
National Register reference number. 76000932 - 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of James Ellis Stone Tavern between 1999 and 2011, burning about 100 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 February 2009	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NICHOLAS COUNTY
23 October 2010	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MT TABOR

Every fire recorded in Nicholas County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellisville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellisville	$250,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged about twelve homes along U.S. Highway 68. A barn was heavily damaged, and several outbuildings were destroyed. Numerous trees were downed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellisville	-	Multiple trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Nicholas 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Forest Retreat Farm and Tavern	4.8 miles	1973
Stone Barn on Brushy Creek	5.2 miles	1983
Carlisle Historic District	5.6 miles	1989
Thomas Kennedy House	5.8 miles	1989
Carlisle Armory	5.8 miles	2000
Carlisle, Louisville and Nashville Passenger Depot	5.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000932 in Record Group 79.
Nicholas County	All 12 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.