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Col. Abner Gaines House

Built in 1814 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Abner Gaines House or Gaines Tavern History Center was built on the Old Lexington Pike in Walton, Kentucky in 1814. It is the oldest house in Walton and is built in the Federal Style, featuring three stairways and ten carved mantels.”

Wikipedia article Abner Gaines House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1814, Federal architecture.

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.
  • Listed as. Gaines, Col. Abner, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Walton at 84 Old Lexington Pike, Walton, 41094
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Walton
  • When was it built? 1814
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80001483 - 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Col. Abner Gaines House between 2000 and 2002, burning about 63 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined57 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWalton$15,000Several trees were blown down. A barn and a house were damaged. Two mobile homes at the Speedway were damaged.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindWalton$5,000A barn was destroyed, along with major damage to a few outbuildings along State Route 16. Several trees and power lines were also downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWalton$5,000A tree fell on a house, causing minor damage.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWalton$3,000A few trees were downed near exit 171 on I-75.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWalton$3,000Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindWalton$3,000Trees were blown down over Stevenson Mill Road.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWalton$3,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWalton$1,000A large tree was downed.
April 2011Flash FloodWalton$1,000Multiple intersections were impassible due to the heavy rainfall.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWalton$750A small tree was snapped in half.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWalton$750One tree was snapped.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindWalton$500A tree was downed along Salem Creek Road.
May 2020Flash FloodWalton-A portion of Salem Creek Road was under water due to rapid rises on McCoys Fork.
September 2018FloodWalton-Several inches of water was reported flowing across U.S. Route 25.
February 2016HailWalton-Dime size hail fell near mile marker 173 on I-75.
May 2003Flash FloodWalton-Little Salem Creek went out of its banks, causing flooding of lowlands and roads near the stream.
April 2011HailWalton-no account filed
May 2010HailWalton-no account filed
August 2003HailWalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Robert Chamber House0.4 miles2000
John Clifton and Ann Catherine Mayhugh House0.9 miles2005
John Clifton Mayhugh House1.0 miles1989
C. Scott Chambers House and Funeral Parlor1.0 miles2000
John G. Tomlin House1.0 miles2005
Nicholas S. and Gertrude E. Blau House1.3 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001483 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone CountyAll 101 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.