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Photograph of Henry County Courthouse
Photograph by W.marsh, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Henry County Courthouse, Jail, and Warden's House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Henry County Courthouse, Jail, and Warden's House in New Castle, Kentucky was built in 1875. It was designed by the McDonald Brothers in a mix of Italianate, Second Empire, and other styles.”

Wikipedia article Henry County Courthouse, Jail, and Warden's House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Courthouse Sq., New Castle, 40050
  • When was it listed? April 1977
  • Category. building
  • Census division. New Castle
  • National Register reference number. 77000621 - 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Henry County Courthouse, Jail, and Warden's House between 2002 and 2014, burning about 127 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 July 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning97 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL RUN
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Castle, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodNew Castle$10,000A car was washed into a stream adjacent to Hillsboro Road two miles northwest of New Castle. Two to three feet of water covered the road. Other roads were flooded and impassable near Pendleton.
February 2000Flash FloodNew Castle$10,000High school flooded
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Castle$2,000Trees downed in New Castle.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-An area of concentrated tree damage from strong winds was observed along Lagrange Road west of New Castle.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A tree was reported down in New Castle.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-There were multiple trees reported down at East Cross Main Street.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-There were multiple trees reported down at Lagrange Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A law enforcement official reported several trees down across the county.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A law enforcement official reported trees down in the area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A localized downburst brought a few trees down in New Castle. Local law enforcement reported a few trees toppled along Herndon Lane, as well as Orem and LaGrange Roads. Another tree was reported downed just to the west of New Castle near the intersection of Highway 146 and Sulfur Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were blown down county-wide.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Several trees were blown down in the New Castle area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Large limbs were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed.
June 2002Flash FloodNew Castle-Flood waters closed Highway 146 near New Castle.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees and power lines down
May 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed along Highway 146 between New Castle and Pendleton.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Several trees knocked down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees blown down on Highway 421. Tents were blown down at the Fairgrounds. Report from Henry County Dispatch.
April 2017HailNew Castle-no account filed
April 2011HailNew Castle-no account filed
May 2009HailNew Castle-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed
August 2000HailNew Castle-no account filed
April 1999HailNew Castle-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed
June 1998HailNew Castle-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
New Castle Historic Commercial Districtunder 500 feet2016
Robert Ricketts House0.1 miles1978
Thomas Smith House0.1 miles1978
Isham Henderson House0.6 miles1987
Robert Ricketts House3.2 miles1978
Eminence Historic Commercial District4.5 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000621 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry CountyAll 13 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.