Clay City National Bank Building

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Clay City National Bank Building, located on 6th Ave. in Clay City, Kentucky, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Clay City National Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Powell County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6th Ave., Clay City, 40312
When was it listed? July 1976
Category. building
Census division. Clay City
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 76000940 - 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

79 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Clay City National Bank Building between 1998 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	26
Debris and open burning	25
Recreation and ceremony	18
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHARLIE LANE
24 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Powell 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 Clay City National Bank Building: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	213 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Drake 01	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Powell County

Storms near this property

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay City, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 11 flash flood, 5 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2014	Lightning	Clay City	1 hurt	A county employee was struck by lightning. The person was taken to a hospital but there were no details available on specific injuries.
March 1997	Flash Flood	Clay City	$200,000	no account filed
April 2008	Flash Flood	Clay City	$55,000	Adams Ridge Road was washed out by flood waters.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Clay City	$50,000	The Powell County emergency manager say that Stanton is experiencing severe flash flooding. A rescue was underway in the city limits on Stanton Road. A daycare center was evacuated due to flooding and many businesses were flooded. Debris was seen flowing across many roads within Stanton city limits.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$35,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down county wide.
December 2019	Flood	Clay City	$11,000	The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported standing water over Kentucky Highways 2026, 1184, and 613 between Bowen and Clay City.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$10,000	Numerous tree branches were torn off along Spout Springs Road. Branches were 2 to 5 inches in diameter. One tree was also blown down on Highway 2001.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$10,000	Several trees down.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$7,000	Dispatch reported that a tree fell on a vehicle on Main St, injuring two of the passengers.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$5,000	Trees downed. One tree fell onto house.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$3,000	Power lines were downed.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$3,000	no account filed
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$2,500	A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph occurred near Stanton in Powell county. One small tree and two large limbs blown down in Stanton.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$2,000	Large tree limbs were blown down on Snow Creek.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$2,000	Two trees were blown down on Highway 11.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$2,000	Two trees down on old Winchester Road. One tree down on Pecks Creek Road and another on Oak Ridge Drive.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	A phone line was blown down by strong thunderstorm wind gusts near Clay City.
March 2015	Flood	Clay City	$1,000	Adams Ridge on Brush Branch had to be closed due to flooding.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	A 5 inch diameter tree limb was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Route 1057 near Big Hardwicks Creek Road.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	Three trees were blown down on Little Hardwicks Creek Road.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	Tree blown down on a power line.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Powell County dispatch reported a tree blown down along the road near the intersection of Pompeii Road and Woody Ware Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	A tree was blown down near the intersection of Woody Ware and Pompeii roads.
January 2022	Heavy Rain	Clay City	-	The cooperative observer located 2 miles west of Stanton measured 3.14 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 8am on January 2, 2022.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	A tree was blown down on Beech Fork Road near Clay City.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Clay City	-	A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.25 inches was reported off Beech Fork Road just east-northeast of Clay City.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	A tree was downed and over Paint Creek Road in the 2500 block north of Stanton.
February 2019	Flood	Clay City	-	Local media reported flooding between Stanton and Clay City along Kentucky Highway 2026.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	A tree was blown down in the Heartbreak Ridge area.
February 2012	Hail	Clay City	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Clay City.
March 2012	Hail	Clay City	-	Hail, ranging from dime to half dollar size, covered the ground approximately 2.5 miles north on Route 11 heading towards Mount Sterling.
April 2011	Hail	Clay City	-	The hail was the size of half dollars.
May 2010	Heavy Rain	Clay City	-	A volunteer weather observer reported that 3.58 inches of rain had fallen in Clay City since 8 am.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	The Beech Fork Reservoir between Clay City and Stanton was in danger of breach. Water was overflowing the dam according to the Beech Fork Water Commission.
January 2009	Flood	Clay City	-	Numerous roads were flooded due to the ice and debris in the Red River causing it to overflow its banks. Roads closures included Pompeii, Adams Ridge, Rosslyn, Bowen and Maple Street. These roads were all in the Clay City and Stanton areas.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	Portions of Highway 15 has over 6 inches of water flowing across it. Debris was also flowing across the road.
April 2009	Funnel Cloud	Clay City	-	A funnel cloud was reported by state police in Clay City and West Bend.
February 2008	Flood	Clay City	-	Highway 2026 near beach fork was flooded. Flooding was also reported in the Bowen Community on Highway 15.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Thunderstomr winds were estimated at 65 mph by a National Weather Service employee.
January 2006	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	Twelve inches of water flowing across several areas of Highway 82, Hardwick Road, and Adams Ridge Road.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees down on Happy Top Road near Clay City.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees down in Clay City.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Large tree limbs down in Clay City.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	One tree down at Snow Creek.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	One tree down on Highway 82.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Clay City	-	A storm survey confirmed that an F0 tornado, with a wind of 60 to 70 miles per hour, touched down in Clay City near Highway 15. The tornado had a width of about 50 feet and touched down very briefly. The tornado was embedded in a large area of straight-line, downburst wind.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Thunderstorm winds brought several trees down in the area.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	Two feet of flowing water between mile marker 12 and 16 on the Mountain Parkway. Portion of the Parkway was closed at Exit 16 due to high water. Kentucky Highways 15 and 11 were also closed due to flowing water. One house and 2 mobile homes were surrounded by water, no damage was reported.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	One tree and several large limbs down.
December 2000	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	Harwicks Creek and Frames Branch reported out of their banks at Adams Ridge near Clay City. Several homes cut off by floodwaters.
January 1999	Flash Flood	Clay City	-	Water blocked roads in and around the Clay City area.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees downed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees were downed.
June 1995	Hail	Clay City	-	Public reports golf ball-size hail.
March 2012	Hail	Clay City	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Clay City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Clay City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Powell County

Newspapers printed here

4,201 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,004 issues, 4,201 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Clay City Times	1901 to Current

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 76000940 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Powell County	All 1 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.