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Photograph of Smiths Grove Baptist Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smiths Grove Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Smiths Grove Baptist Church is a historic church at Main and 5th Streets in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. It was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Smiths Grove Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 102 National Register listings published here for Warren 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main and 5th Sts., Smiths Grove, 42171
  • When was it listed? December 1979
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Warren County MRA
  • Census division. Smiths Grove
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 79003538 - 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

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Smiths Grove Baptist Church between 2000 and 2014, burning about 138 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryNOAH BLEDS
7 April 2011Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAYS FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.2 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE KNOB FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPIG ROAD
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

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 Smiths Grove Baptist Church: 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
Smith Grove No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smiths Grove, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$30,000A trained spotter reported that a home sustained roof damage and a camper was overturned along Highway 31W near KY 101 due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$15,000A Twitter report relayed to the NWS from the public indicated that a tree fell on a house due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$5,000An unspecified structure was blown on to Highway 68-80 and was blocking the road.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$5,000no account filed
December 2013Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$2,000A spotter located in Smith's Grove reported some minor damage to some outbuildings.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove$500A porch was blown of f a home.
April 2025HailSmiths Grove-There was a photo of ping pong size hail.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-The National Weather Service in Louisville conducted a storm survey for the macroburst damage extending from western Grayson County, through Edmonson County, before ending in northeastern Warren County. ||As the survey continued into northeastern Warren County, multiple barns suffered damage along Louisville Road (US Highway 31W), resulting in wind speed estimates between 85 and 95 mph. Additionally, in this area, scattered tree damage continued to be observed. Another pocket of heavily concentrated damage was noted in the Smiths Grove, Oakland, and Plum Springs communities, resulting in minor structural damage and numerous trees down. The most severe tree damage along the whole path of the macroburst was observed in Smiths Grove, where multiple large trees were snapped near their bases. Maximum wind speeds in Smiths Grove were estimated at 100 mph, with wind speeds elsewhere in northeastern Warren County estimated between 85 and 95 mph. While isolated damage continued farther to the south and west, the area between Plum Springs and Smiths Grove served as the end of the path of heavy damage.||All tree and structural damage was blown to the southeast along the path. This damage pattern is consistent with downburst winds, with the large scale of damage suggesting a macroburst event.
August 2018Flash FloodSmiths Grove-It was reported that six to eight inches of flowing water was flowing over highway 101 and US 31W.
November 2018FloodSmiths Grove-Six to eight inches of water were covering approximately 30 yards of U.S. Highway 31W a quarter of a mile south of Kentucky Highway 101.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-A trained spotter reported trees down across Highway 31W.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-Local law enforcement reported trees down near Smiths Grove.
July 2010Flash FloodSmiths Grove-Main street in Smiths Grove had about six inches of water across the roadway.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-Trees were blown down at 6th St. and College St.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-A tree was downed near the intersection of U.S. 68/80 and Highway 101.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-Several trees were downed near the intersection of KY 101 and U.S. 68/80.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-Several trees were reported down near Smiths Grove, at the intersection of Kentucky Highway 101 and Interstate 65.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-Numerous trees were blocking the road from Bowling Green to Smith's Grove.
April 2025HailSmiths Grove-no account filed
June 2011HailSmiths Grove-no account filed
August 2005HailSmiths Grove-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSmiths Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Smiths Grove Historic District (Boundary Increase II & Additional Documentation)under 500 feet2007
Smiths Grove Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.2 miles1987
Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church0.2 miles1979
Sterrett House0.2 miles1979
J. L. Wright House0.3 miles1979
Smiths Grove District0.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79003538 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren CountyAll 102 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.