Brock House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Off Red River Rd., Bloomingdale, 40391
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Clark County MRA
Census division. Southeast Clark
National Register reference number. 79003567 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Brock House between 1999 and 2012, burning about 58 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 April 2001	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 November 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GORDON ROA
10 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEDDLES MILL
31 October 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingdale, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Flash Flood	Bloomingdale	-	There were multiple closures along Red River Road due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Antioch Christian Church	4.4 miles	1979
Frances Cullom Jr. House	4.8 miles	1979
John Gibbs House	5.4 miles	1979
Bybee House	5.5 miles	1979
Jesse Hampton House	5.5 miles	1979
Lampton House	6.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003567 in Record Group 79.
Clark County	All 62 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.