BlockBefore
Photograph of Stanford L&N Railroad Depot
Photograph by FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Baughman's Mill and Stanford Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Stanford L&N Railroad Depot, also known as Baughman's Mill and Stanford Railroad Depot, is a historic train depot located in Stanford, Kentucky. It was built in 1911 and was used by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.”

Wikipedia article Stanford station (Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. Depot and Mill Sts., Stanford, 40484
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Stanford
  • National Register reference number. 78001373 - 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Baughman's Mill and Stanford Railroad Depot between 1998 and 2019, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLANDFILL
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZZLETT HOLLOW
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHOLE IN TH
8 April 2013Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH FORK
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySKY LINE CEMETERY
27 March 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Baughman's Mill and Stanford Railroad Depot: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eastside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Westside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

39 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanford, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2010Flash FloodStanford1 killed, $30,000Heavy rains caused flash flooding of the Hanging Fork River on KY 300 near Stanford. One person died when a van with multiple passengers was swept off the road into the river. The driver of the van exited the vehicle and climbed onto the roof. He then lost his grip and fell into the rushing water. M47VE.
February 2011Tornado (EF1)Stanford$100,000An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 100 mph touched down about a mile southwest of Stanford. It traveled southeast damaging the middle school complex on Highway 27 about a mile south of Stanford. The tornado continued to damage large barns and out buildings as well as snap trees until it lifted about 2.1 miles northwest of Crab Orchard.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStanford$15,000The Lincoln County emergency manager reported trees down in the city and that a tin roof was blown off a home due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindStanford$10,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStanford$6,000The emergency manager reported trees and a few power lines down. Also nickel size hail fell.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindStanford$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down. A tree limb was blown on to a police cruiser.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindStanford$5,000Trees down. One home was damaged.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindStanford$2,000A tree was blown on to a car on Kentucky Highway 3245.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindStanford-A tree was blown down onto a house and went through the roof on Spring Valley Drive in Stanford.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindStanford-Power lines were blown down along the 300 block of Anderson Heights in Stanford.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStanford-Power lines were downed near the intersection of Danville Avenue and Lee Drive in Stanford.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindStanford-A few trees and large tree limbs were downed in Stanford.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindStanford-A tree and power lines were blown down on Danville Avenue between Portman Avenue and Maxwell Street.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees and power lines were reported down near Stanford and western portions of the county.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindStanford-State officials reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees were reported down in the city of Stanford due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindStanford-Local law enforcement reported trees down throughout the county. At 925 pm EDT, the Kentucky Mesonet 4 miles northeast of Stanford measured a 51 mph wind gust.
March 2012Flash FloodStanford-Flash Flooding caused by the training of several storms briefly closed 3rd Street in Stanford.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindStanford-A spotter reported trees down around Stanford.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees were blown down county-wide. A roof was also blown off a trailer.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStanford-Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees were downed in Stanford and just west of Stanford on Hatcher Road.
June 2009Flash FloodStanford-Some roads were covered with water in the city.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindStanford-Trees were downed.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindStanford-Several trees were downed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindStanford-Several trees down as a squall line moved through.
January 2006HailStanford-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed
July 2004HailStanford-no account filed
July 2004HailStanford-no account filed
June 2001HailStanford-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed
June 1997HailStanford-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindStanford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

Newspapers printed here

18,016 digitised pages

5 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,048 issues, 18,016 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.

NewspaperPublished
The Interior Journal1872 to 1881
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal1881 to 1905
The Interior Journal1905 to 1910
The Stanford Interior Journal1911 to 1912
The Interior Journal1912 to 1984

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
Stanford Commercial District0.1 miles1986
Lincoln County Courthouse0.1 miles1976
Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House0.1 miles1975
James W. Alcorn House0.3 miles1980
Dr. Thomas Montgomery House0.6 miles1978
Horace Withers House1.1 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001373 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln CountyAll 22 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.