Middletown United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Middletown United Methodist Church is a historic church at Madison and Main Streets in Middletown, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Middletown United Methodist Church, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Madison and Main Sts., Middletown, 40243
When was it listed? December 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
Census division. Southeast Jefferson
Architectural style. Gothic architecture
National Register reference number. 80001638 - 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 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Middletown United Methodist Church: 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

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional 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

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
Middletown Inn	under 500 feet	1984
Bank of Middletown	under 500 feet	1983
Davis Tavern	0.1 miles	1983
Head House	0.1 miles	1974
Henry Frank House	0.2 miles	1980
Beynroth House	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001638 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.