BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Idlewild
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SE of Trenton on U.S. 41, Trenton, 42286
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. Trenton
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 80001670 - 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 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Idlewild in 1999, burning about 4 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
29 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | 3 hurt, $1,500,000 | A National Weather Service damage survey indicated a macroburst containing winds near 100 MPH caused extensive damage across southern Todd County. Most of the damage was in the Zion, Hermon, Allensville, and Trenton areas. Wind destroyed two trailers, three hog houses, and numerous barns and sheds. The injuries occurred to occupants of a trailer. Two people were trapped in the mobile home for a while, and one was transported to a hospital for minor injuries. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $150,000 | Two houses in Trenton sustained major damage, including partial destruction of an exterior wall. Some other homes received minor damage. Most of the house damage was due to falling trees. Trees and power poles were down. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $75,000 | Widespread downed trees and power lines were reported countywide. On Highway 106 northeast of Sharon Grove, an old mobile home that was not tied down was flipped over. In the same area, four to five large oak trees were down, and a garage was damaged. The roofs on a house and garage were heavily damaged. Two buildings used for storage were destroyed. Several houses and barns in the area sustained minor damage. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $75,000 | Trees fell on a trailer in Trenton. Two homes, one business, a car, and a truck were damaged by falling trees in Guthrie. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $50,000 | A couple of farms were damaged in southern Todd County. At the first farm, siding from a farmhouse was strewn across a neighbor's property. At the second farm, a hog farm, three hog barns were destroyed. As a sidenote, a major tornado occurred at about this time in Clarksville, Tennessee, which is in the county just south of Todd. Several residents in southern Todd County found what were believed to be pieces of debris from Clarksville. In the Trenton area, a couple of landowners found vehicle title application forms and licensing receipts from the Montgomery County, Tennessee Courthouse. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $35,000 | The roof was torn off a pole barn, minor shingle damage occurred to a home, and trees were down on a farm 3.5 miles north of Trenton. This damage was very close to the observed 95 mph wind gust from a mesonet site. The Todd County mesonet site located 5 miles southwest of Elkton measured a wind gust to 95 mph. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $25,000 | Several trees were blown down, and a few barns were destroyed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $10,000 | Part of a barn was blown onto a road two miles northeast of Trenton. A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at the Kentucky mesonet site four miles northeast of Trenton. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $10,000 | A few trees about a foot in diameter were blown down. Power lines and numerous large limbs were down. Corn in several cornfields was blown over at a 45 degree angle. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $6,000 | A power pole was snapped. |
| February 2019 | Flash Flood | Trenton | $5,000 | High water threatened a church and a couple of homes in Elkton. Water covered portions of State Roads 181, 848, and 475, as well as several county roads. Numerous roads were impassable due to high water. A mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton measured a storm total of 3.01 inches. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $5,000 | Several trees were down along Highway 104. A vehicle was stuck between trees. |
| October 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Trenton | $5,000 | A damage survey revealed a brief EF-0 tornado along Highway 475. There was damage to recreational equipment blown from the back yard of a home. Pieces of tin were blown off a barn roof. Peak winds were estimated at 65 mph. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at the Kentucky mesonet site. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Trenton | - | A couple of county roads were closed by high water in the western end of the county. On the north side of Elkton, Elk Fork Creek was out of its banks. Public safety officials alerted nearby residents of the danger. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | A wind gust to 58 mph was measured by a trained spotter. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | Trenton | - | Water was ponding on a roadway in Trenton. A Cocorahs weather observer in Guthrie measured a storm-total precipitation amount of 3.34 inches. This included some melted sleet and ice. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | Route 104 between Trenton and Guthrie was closed due to a few trees across it. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Trenton | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray's Inn | 3.3 miles | 2004 | |
| Guthrie Historic District | 4.5 miles | 2011 | |
 | Woodstock | 5.4 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001670 in Record Group 79. |
| Todd County | All 14 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.
- 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.