Falls of Rough Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Falls of Rough Historic District, along Kentucky Route 110 in Falls of Rough, Kentucky, is a 50 acres (20 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It included 10 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and three contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Falls of Rough Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Breckinridge County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. KY 110, Falls of Rough, 40119
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. district
National Register reference number. 78001305 - 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

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Falls of Rough Historic District between 1999 and 2012, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TICK RIDGE
30 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLAINE HILL
25 September 1999	Smoking	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
17 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falls of Rough, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
December 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Falls Of Rough	-	This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. This is the second of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado arrived in Breckinridge County, crossed Schneider Road, and damaged a cattle barn and trees, before entering Grayson County.
December 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Falls Of Rough	-	This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). This is the fourth of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. The tornado continued onward crossing Highway 110, going over a ridgetop and snapping more trees. More extensive tree damage occurred as the tornado briefly paralleled another portion of the Rough River as it crossed Old Railroad Bed Road.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Falls Of Rough	-	The Breckinridge emergency manager reported several trees down near the town of Falls of Rough.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Falls Of Rough	-	Several trees were downed near Falls of Rough. Two downed trees blocked Rolling Stone Acres Ln. and Kiper-Whitworth Rd.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Breckinridge County	All 7 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.