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Kimbrough-Hehr House

Built in 1840 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Kimbrough-Hehr House, on U.S. 62 in Broadwell, Kentucky, was built around 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Kimbrough-Hehr House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1840, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. U.S. 62, Broadwell, 41031
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Cynthiana
  • When was it built? 1840
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79000992 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kimbrough-Hehr House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cynthiana QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadwell, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2008Tornado (EF2)Broadwell1 hurt, $500,000The tornado touched down near 812 Mt. Vernon Road, damaging a home and a barn at that location. Along Connersville Road, the tornado lifted the roofs off three homes and damaged three others. It also destroyed several barns and outbuildings, and snapped numerous hardwood trees. It damaged a few more barns and trees before lifting about a half mile southwest of Cynthiana. Several businesses in the city of Cynthiana had sign damage from 70 mph straight line winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBroadwell-Several large trees fell with one falling across a fence line.
January 2023HailBroadwell-Nickel-sized hail was observed at a gas station southwest of Cynthiana.
September 2018Flash FloodBroadwell-Water was over Grays Run Pike.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindBroadwell-Several trees and power lines down

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Samuel McMillan House0.7 miles1983
Joseph Shawhan House2.9 miles1983
John Hinkson House3.0 miles1983
John Lair House4.0 miles1983
Smith House4.9 miles1983
Cynthiana Commercial District5.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harrison CountyAll 24 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.
  • 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.