Bath Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Bath Avenue Historic District, in Ashland, Kentucky, is a 15 acres (6.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It included 26 contributing buildings and two contributing objects.”
Wikipedia article Bath Avenue Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Boyd County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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 26 buildingss, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bath Ave. from 13th to 17th Sts., Ashland, 41101
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. district
Also known as. Ashland MRA
Census division. Ashland
National Register reference number. 79003552 - 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

87 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Bath Avenue Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	IRONTON #1 FIRE
29 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	CABIN
4 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REBEL ROAD
8 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	HOG
6 April 2016	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KENWOOD BLVD
6 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HOG RUN
6 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bath Avenue Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Armco Steel/ Ashland, Ky.	Iron	Unknown
Ashland Oil/ Catlettsburg, Ky.	Sulfur	Unknown
Brammer Const Co Pit No 2	Clay	Producer
Ironton Plant Number 85	Clay	Past Producer
Jerrys Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jerrys Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this property

60 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 77 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 48 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2010	Flood	Ashland	$500,000	In Boyd County, the flooding damaged 28 homes, 11 were major damage. About 25 people were rescued from various locations in the county. Roads such as Tarpin Ridge and Marsh Hill received significant damage. The county high school baseball, softball, and football fields were completely submerged. Equipment for the fields and the concession stand was damaged.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$150,000	Trees were blown down in scattered locations about the city. One tree went through the roof of a house on Chadwick Street, but there were no injuries.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$100,000	Large trees and branches were blown down, some fell onto vehicles. In the aftermath, due to the lack of electricity, several citizens in town used charcoal grills to cook donated food before it spoiled.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$25,000	A tree was blown over and fell onto a house.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$25,000	Several trees were blown down. Electric power outages occurred.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$25,000	Trees were blown down. Some power lines were brought down. One tree fell onto a car.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$20,000	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph. One tree fell onto a garage.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$20,000	Ashland police closed several streets until crews removed fallen trees. One tree destroyed a carport and damaged the roof of a home. One resident said, "It looked like war zone." Carter County also had several trees and power lines blown down.
May 2011	Hail	Ashland	$20,000	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Ashland	$20,000	no account filed
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$15,000	A thunderstorm wind gust was strong enough to blow a portion of the roof off of the Castle Apartment building in the 2300 block of Winchester Avenue.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$15,000	One building sustained minor wind damage.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$15,000	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Ashland	$10,000	Hail broke a few house windows and put dents in siding.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	A few trees were blown down in downtown Ashland. One tree fell onto a van.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	Several trees fell within the city.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew down the awning at a gas station at 2900 Winchester Avenue.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	Several trees were blown down in the city.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Ashland	$10,000	Hoods Creek flooded roads and affected homes in the Westwood section of Ashland. The cooperative observer in Ashland measured 2.1 inches of rain.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	no account filed
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	A tree and adjacent power lines fell onto a residence on Clay Street.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	A tree fell onto power lines and smashed an unoccupied vehicle.
August 2013	Lightning	Ashland	$5,000	A lightning strike caused a house fire at a residence on Skyline Drive in Ashland.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	A portion of a roof to a house was damaged.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	Trees were blown down. One fell onto a house.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	Several trees were blown down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	Several trees were blown down.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	Trees fell across power lines.
May 2011	Hail	Ashland	$5,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$3,000	Thunderstorms winds broke some branches, which fell onto a car.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	A tree and adjacent power lines were blown down along Mound Street near Ashland.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	A large branch was blown down along Woodland Avenue. The tree fell on a power line and brought it down too.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	Trees fell onto power lines.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	Large tree branches were blown down within the city.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	Large branches and a few trees were blown down.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$2,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$1,000	Multiple trees blew down along Cactus Street.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$1,000	Multiple trees were blown down onto Oakville Road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$1,000	One tree and several limbs were blown down in Central Park in Ashland. Another tree was blown down along Sucks Creek Road.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$1,000	Trees were blown down.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$1,000	Minor structural damage occurred to a home.
January 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$500	A large tree limb fell down across Valley View Drive.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	Flooding was observed at the intersection of Winchester Avenue and 29th Street in Ashland and the 2200 block of Greenup Avenue.
April 2020	Heavy Rain	Ashland	-	In the town of Ashland, a residential street was covered in standing water.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Large tree branches were broken off.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Large branches were broken off.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees were knocked down in scattered locations.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees were blown down in the city.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Trees were knocked down in the city.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Large tree branches were snapped off.
May 1995	Hail	Ashland	-	Ashland police closed several streets until crews removed fallen trees. One tree destroyed a carport and damaged the roof of a home. One resident said, "It looked like war zone." Carter County also had several trees and power lines blown down.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Alexander Bagby House	0.2 miles	1979
Timothy Fields House	0.2 miles	1979
Paramount Theatre	0.2 miles	1975
First Presbyterian Church	0.2 miles	1973
Culbertson House	0.2 miles	1979
Martin Hilton House	0.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003552 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyd County	All 25 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.