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One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Zodia Stivers House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Stivers, Zodia, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Fern Creek, Buechel, 40218
- When was it listed? December 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
- Census division. Southeast Jefferson
- National Register reference number. 80001578 - 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
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Zodia Stivers House in 2001, burning about 1 acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 October 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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 Zodia Stivers House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Crushed Stone Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buechel, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Buechel | $100,000 | A tree fell on a home in Newburg. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Buechel | $50,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down just to the north of the intersection of Hurstbourne Parkway and Stony Brook Drive. It traveled northeast along Stony Brook Drive and lifted near the intersection of Stony Brook and Laverne Drive. Numerous trees were snapped along it path. Siding and shingles were blown off of multiple houses. On Michael Edward Drive, a garage door was blown in on a detached garage. The roof of this house was lifted and shifted a foot. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Buechel | $2,000 | Quarter size hail broke windows along Bardstown Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Buechel | - | Metrosafe reported tree damage and power outages in the Buechel area. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | West Buechel | - | Fire department performed water rescues of residents stranded by flash flooding. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buechel | - | There was a large tree across Eldorado Avenue in Buechel. |
| October 2013 | Flash Flood | West Buechel | - | Several roads were flooded around Medford Lane and Livermore Place. |
| April 2011 | Hail | West Buechel | - | The hail fell between 11:07 and 11:22 am. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buechel | - | A telephone pole was downed on Hikes Lane. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Hite House | 0.6 miles | 1980 | |
| Hite-Chenoweth House | 0.6 miles | 1980 | |
| Beech Lawn | 0.7 miles | 1980 | |
| Gaar-Fenton House | 0.7 miles | 1983 | |
| Diamond Fruit Farm | 0.9 miles | 1983 | |
| Diamond Fruit Farm (Boundary Increase) | 0.9 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001578 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.