Johnson Creek Covered Bridge

Built in 1882. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Johnson Creek Covered Bridge is located four miles north of Blue Licks Battlefield State Park in Robertson County and is currently closed to vehicular traffic. The bridge is important as the only known example of Robert Smith's truss system in Kentucky and the only covered bridge extant known to have been built by Jacob N.”
Wikipedia article Johnson Creek Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Robertson County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1882.

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. NE of Mount Olivet on SR 1029, Mount Olivet, 41064
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Mount Olivet
When was it built? 1882
National Register reference number. 76000941 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Creek Covered Bridge between 2006 and 2010, burning about 41 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
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
5 November 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 October 2010	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MT TABOR

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Olivet, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
June 1995	Hail	Mount Olivet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Robertson County Courthouse	4.8 miles	1978
	Thomas Metcalf House	6.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000941 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Robertson County	All 3 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.