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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
Abell 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.
- Address. 12210 Old Shelbyville Rd., Middletown, 40243
- When was it listed? December 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
- Census division. Southeast Jefferson
- Architectural style. Federal architecture
- National Register reference number. 80001635 - 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
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Abell House: 1 producer. 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 |
Storms near this property
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middletown, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail. 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Middletown | $10,000 | A lightning strike caused a house fire on Waters Edge Drive. |
| July 1996 | Lightning | Middletown | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $2,000 | Windows were cracked at Eastern High School |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | Large trees were uprooted in a yard in Middletown. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Heavy rain caused Evergreen Road to become impassable between Shelbyville Road and Ridge Road. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Amateur radio operators reported numerous reports of flooded roadways across much of Louisville metro including water rescues in the Anchorage area. Manhole covers reported off in the downtown area. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | The public relayed a report of a large Hickory tree down along Harrods Creek Road. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Heavy rains caused creeks in parts of eastern Jefferson County to run out of their banks. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Bull House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Davis Tavern | 0.5 miles | 1983 |
 | Middletown United Methodist Church | 0.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Henry Frank House | 0.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Middletown Inn | 0.6 miles | 1984 |
 | Bank of Middletown | 0.7 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001635 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.
- 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.