Mount Zion Covered Bridge

Built in 1871. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1871.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Mooresville on KY 458, Mooresville, 40078
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Willisburg
When was it built? 1871
National Register reference number. 76000958 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mount Zion Covered Bridge in 2005, burning under an acre 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	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
11 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooresville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 3 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
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$35,000	A shed housing farm equipment and a barn were destroyed.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees down on Hayes Lane.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	There was a tree down on Hayes Lane.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Benjamin Pile House	1.6 miles	1989
Ray-Wakefield House	2.0 miles	1989
Glenn Cottage Tract	2.2 miles	1989
Pat Lyddan House	2.6 miles	1989
Long Lick Creek Bridge	2.7 miles	1989
John Thomas House	2.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000958 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 69 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.