BlockFrom the record
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Christian County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cox House
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. S of SR 272, Julien, 42232
- When was it listed? April 1979
- Category. building
- Also known as. Christian County MRA
- Census division. LaFayette
- National Register reference number. 79003615 - 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
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cox House between 2007 and 2010, burning about 188 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 153 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONG |
| 24 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 October 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | I-24 FIRE |
Storms near this property
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Julien, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Julien | $25,000 | Trees were uprooted, and large tree limbs were blown down. Large metal doors of toolsheds were pushed in. The farm where the damage occurred was on Route 272. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Julien | $5,000 | A tractor-trailer rig was overturned on Interstate 24 at mile marker 72. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Julien | - | Two trees were down across Highway 117 about a mile from Interstate 24. Another tree or two fell along Highway 117 between Gracey and Herndon. |
| May 2000 | Lightning | Julien | - | Lightning was the indirect cause of a house fire that killed 3 children and their father. The fire was sparked by an unattended candle which was being used because of a power outage. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland/Henry House | 4.0 miles | 1979 | |
| Church Hill Grange Hall | 5.6 miles | 1975 | |
| Smokehouse on Riverside Creek | 6.0 miles | 1987 | |
| Campbell House | 6.6 miles | 1979 | |
| John C. Gary House | 8.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003615 in Record Group 79. |
| Christian County | All 51 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.