Carpenter-Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Constructed around 1839, the Carpenter-Smith House is located on Covered Bridge Road near Crestwood in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Carpenter-Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 1982 · 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. Covered Bridge Rd., Crestwood, 40059
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. building
Census division. Pewee Valley
National Register reference number. 82002739 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carpenter-Smith House in 2000, burning about 25 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
15 March 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carpenter-Smith House: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Crestwood Mine Underground	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crestwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Oldham County Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Oldham County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestwood, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Crestwood	$5,000	Power lines were downed and a railroad crossing gate was broken by thunderstorm winds.
February 2025	Flash Flood	Crestwood	-	Flash flooding reported near Crestwood.
January 2023	Hail	Crestwood	-	Multiple reports of quarter size hail were received from the Crestwood area.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Crestwood	-	Numerous roads were closed in the city by high water.
May 2004	Hail	Crestwood	-	Golfball size hail was reported between Interstate 71 and Crestwood.
May 2004	Hail	Crestwood	-	There were numerous reports of large hail from the Crestwood area.
April 2007	Hail	Crestwood	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Crestwood	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Crestwood	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Crestwood	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Crestwood	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Crestwood	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Crestwood	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Crestwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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
Abraham Kellar House	0.7 miles	1979
Yager House	0.8 miles	1982
Ross-Hollenbach Farm	1.2 miles	2008
Harrods Creek Baptist Church and Rev. William Kellar House	1.2 miles	1976
Yewell-Snyder House	2.1 miles	1983
Wesley Methodist Church	2.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002739 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.