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Springfield Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Springfield Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Sharpsburg, Kentucky. It was built in 1821 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Springfield Presbyterian Church (Sharpsburg, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Bath County · listed in 1979 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of Sharpsburg on Springfield Rd., Sharpsburg, 40360
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sharpsburg
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79000959 - 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Springfield Presbyterian Church between 2000 and 2011, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySR 486
28 March 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROGERS MILL
7 February 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 February 2001Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 October 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Bath County

Storms near this property

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpsburg, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 26 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Sharpsburg$200,000A quick spin up occurred as winds descended to the ground in NW Bath County, hitting a house on top of a ridge off of Springfield Road (south of Sharpsburg), along with trees and a barn in the adjacent holler to the east. From this point forward, the event became more straight-line wind dominated and continued to be so throughout much of the county. The house sustained substantial damage. A large section of roofing was removed, including a large hole into the master closet. All windows around entire house had been bowed in, bending the frames and cracking the molding around them. Grass, dirt, insulation, and other small debris was also plastered to windows, doors, and siding on all sides of the house, including on all sides of a sheltered screen in porch. Flashing was also removed from inside the sheltered porch. Basement doors on other side of sheltering retaining wall were buckled in by the force of the wind (and possible change in pressure). House also had multiple cracks along the exterior brick-work that were not there before. In addition, it moved several things outside, including a large trailer holding the front of a combine, twisting the tongue of the trailer. Debris from the house was blown several hundred yards away, and some has not yet been found. Farther down from the house, numerous trees and a barn was hit. The barn is still standing, but sustained substantial damage to the SE corner.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$50,000Bath county dispatch reported that 8 to 10 barns had been blown down in the Sharpsburg and Bethel areas.
May 2011HailSharpsburg$30,000A trained spotter witnessed golf ball to baseball size hail in Sharpsburg. The hail caused damage to cars in the area including broken windshields.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$30,000Multiple trees were blown down in Sharpsburg and Bethel. All of the electricity was out in Bethel.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$10,000Five to six trees down on roads north of Sharpsburg. Power out.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$8,000A hay barn was blown over near the community of Stoops, just south of Sharpsburg.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$5,000Numerous large trees were downed. A billboard was also blown over and power lines were downed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$4,000Trees were blown down on Hwy 36 near the Nicholas county line.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$3,000Trees were downed.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$2,000Two large trees had to be removed from roadways.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2015Flash FloodSharpsburg$1,000Low water bridges on Bald Eagle Road were flooded.
April 2011Flash FloodSharpsburg$1,000KY 11 closed near Fairview and Hwy 36 due to flash flooding.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Swath of wind went through fields, passing through Gossett Road in a path about 600 yards long. Numerous trees were snapped along the tree lines and along the road, with all debris laying eastward.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-County highway department reported numerous trees blown down along KY-11 between Sharpsburg and Bethel.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Dispatch reported trees downed south of Sharpsburg, on both Springfield Road and West Tunnel Hill Road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-The roofs were blown off structures in Sharpsburg at 167 Main Street and 120 Back Street.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Numerous trees were blown down on Hwy 11.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-A few trees were blown down along Hwy 36 between Owingsville and Sharpsburg.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-A barn and the front porches of two residences were damaged on Ramey and Long Branch Roads. A tree was also downed by the winds.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were blown down through out Sharpsburg.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-A National Weather Service storm damage survey team and Bath county emergency management surveyed damage at a farm off Hwy 1198. It was determined that a microburst occurred, destroying a barn and uprooting and snapping the trunks of several trees. Debris from the barn was scattered in a northeasterly direction up to 400 yards away from where the barn originally stood. It is estimated that winds reach upwards of 90 mph in the microburst.
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Sharpsburg-An EF-1 tornado, with peak winds of 90 mph, touched down near Sharpsburg. The path length was about 0.6 miles with a maximum width of 50 yards. The tornado damaged three barns while it was on the ground. There was also sporadic damage to trees along the tornado's path.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were blown down with a road closed near Sharpsburg. Barn roofs were also reported to have been blown off.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were blown down and onto power lines.
March 2013Flash FloodSharpsburg-Highwya 36 was closed due to flash flooding between mile markers 2 and 6.
March 2012HailSharpsburg-Golf ball size hail was reported near Olympia, Bethel, and Sharpsburg.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-A tree was blown down and across West Tunnel Hill Rd.
April 2008Flash FloodSharpsburg-Highway 36 West had 2 to 3 feet of water running over it at Bald Eagle Ridge.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Six trees were down and partially blocked Ratliff Road, Richland Road, and Route 11.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Numerous trees were down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were reported down along with a telephone line along West Tunnel Hill Road about 4 miles southeast of Sharpsburg. Also, three quarter inch hail was reported in Sharpsburg.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSharpsburg-Trees were blown down.
July 2007HailSharpsburg-no account filed
April 2006HailSharpsburg-no account filed
November 2002HailSharpsburg-no account filed
April 2001HailSharpsburg-no account filed
June 2001HailSharpsburg-no account filed
June 1998HailSharpsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bath 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
Sharpsburg Historic District3.9 miles2024
Myrtle Hill6.7 miles1982
J.J. Nesbitt House7.4 miles2010
Col. Thomas Deye Owings House7.5 miles1978
Owingsville Commercial District and Courthouse Square7.6 miles1978
Owingsville Commercial District and Courthouse Square (Boundary Increase)7.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000959 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bath CountyAll 9 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.