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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
McClellen 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. SR 508, Honey Grove, 42240
- When was it listed? April 1979
- Category. building
- Also known as. Christian County MRA
- Census division. Hopkinsville
- National Register reference number. 79003621 - 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
7 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of McClellen House between 2004 and 2014, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BAREFOOT |
| 21 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHILOH |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McClellen House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britmark Clay | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Grove, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 flood, 2 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding of low-lying areas occurred along the South Fork of the Little River near Highway 68/80. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River. Farmland in the vicinity of the river was flooded. Street flooding began in Hopkinsville. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River. Farmland in the vicinity of the river was flooded. Street flooding began in Hopkinsville. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River just east of Hopkinsville. Some low-lying fields and woods near the river were under water. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River on the east side of Hopkinsville. Low-lying farmland and fields near the river were flooded. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Honey Grove | - | Minor flooding occurred on the south fork of the Little River on the eastern outskirts of Hopkinsville. Low-lying fields and woodlands along the river were flooded. The flooding occurred in response to a couple of thunderstorms the previous night. |
| February 2011 | Flash Flood | Honey Grove | - | A foot of standing water was over a secondary road. U.S. Highway 41 was partially blocked due to rapidly flowing water. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Honey Grove | - | Some road closures were reported, with several creeks and ditches out of their banks. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Honey Grove | - | Hailstones up to baseball size were reported on U.S. Highway 68 at State Route 1027. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Honey Grove | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dr. Edward S. Stewart House | 3.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Western Lunatic Asylum | 6.7 miles | 1979 |
| Boatright House | 6.9 miles | 1979 | |
 | E. H. Higgins House | 7.6 miles | 1984 |
 | E. W. Walker House | 7.8 miles | 1983 |
| Whitepath and Fly Smith Gravesite | 8.0 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003621 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.
- 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.