BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Spring Hill
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. S of Ballardsville off KY 53, Ballardsville, 40068
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. La Grange
- National Register reference number. 80001664 - 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.
Storms near this property
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ballardsville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballardsville | $25,000 | More damage was surveyed in the Grand Dell subdivision where several trees fell, mostly toward the east and some properties were damaged. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballardsville | - | A private weather station measured a 53 knot gust. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballardsville | - | A trained spotter reported a gust of 60 mph. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ballardsville | - | Power lines were blown down between La Grange and Ballardsville. This sparked a small grass fire. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Ballardsville | - | Moody Lane and Fort Pickens Road were closed due to high waters. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ballardsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ballardsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ballardsville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Ballardsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland | 2.1 miles | 2016 | |
 | McMahan House | 5.6 miles | 1982 |
 | Central La Grange Historic District | 5.8 miles | 1988 |
| Bradshaw-Duncan House | 5.8 miles | 2005 | |
| Russell Court | 5.9 miles | 1988 | |
| D. W. Griffith House | 5.9 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001664 in Record Group 79. |
| Oldham County | All 48 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.
- 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.