BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bracken County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bracken County Infirmary
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NE of Chatham on KY 19, Chatham, 41002
- When was it listed? April 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Augusta
- National Register reference number. 79000966 - 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
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bracken County Infirmary between 1997 and 1999, burning about 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
5 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatham, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatham | $15,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down, along with power outages and some minor roof damage. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatham | $6,000 | Asbury Road near Dutch Ridge Road was closed due to trees and power lines down. Brooksville was without power for about six hours. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatham | $5,000 | A tree was knocked down onto a barn on Hackett Ridge Road. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatham | $5,000 | Hillsdale Road was impassable due to trees and limbs down. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatham | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Gregg Fee House | 2.0 miles | 1980 | |
 | Stroube House | 3.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Baker Vineyard and Wine Cellar (Boundary Increase) | 3.5 miles | 2007 |
| Stone House on Bracken Creek | 3.5 miles | 1987 | |
| Confederate Monument in Augusta | 3.6 miles | 1997 | |
 | Baker Vinyard and Wine Cellar | 3.6 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000966 in Record Group 79. |
| Bracken County | All 23 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.