James Thompson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The James Thompson House in Anchorage, Kentucky, was built in about 1894. The house's architecture is eclectic, with elements of Shingle Style and Queen Anne style, and by tradition it has been believed to have been designed by E.T.”
Wikipedia article James Thompson House (Anchorage, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Thompson, James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1400 Walmut Land, Anchorage, 40223
When was it listed? December 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
Census division. East Jefferson
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
National Register reference number. 80001570 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of James Thompson House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Avoca Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Crestwood Mine Underground	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anchorage, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	The public reported trees down at Anchorage School and Anchorage Presbyterian Church.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	The public submitted a picture via Facebook of a large portion of a tree snapped off.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	The public reported a large tree downed across a railroad track near Anchorage.
June 2011	Flood	Anchorage	-	An NWS employee reported around 1.5 inches of rain within an hour and one half with minor street flooding.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	Numerous trees were down and power outages were reported across Jefferson County.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	Trees were downed.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	Trees were downed and were blocking roads.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Anchorage	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Anchorage	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Anchorage	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Anchorage	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Anchorage	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hausgen House	under 500 feet	1983
Presbyterian Manse	0.1 miles	1983
Nash-McDonald House	0.1 miles	1980
Robert May House	0.2 miles	1983
Bayless House	0.2 miles	1980
Bonnycot	0.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 526 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.
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.