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Ephram Harrod House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Ephram Harrod House is a historic residential stone house built in the late 18th-century in Bourbon County, Kentucky, near North Middletown, Kentucky, U.S. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and was included in the multiple property submission, "Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky".”

Wikipedia article Ephram Harrod House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 1983 · 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.
  • Listed as. Harrod, Ephram, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Off U.S. 460, North Middletown, 40361
  • When was it listed? August 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
  • Census division. North Middletown
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83002562 - 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 Ephram Harrod House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cassius M. Clay VeinsBarium-Barite, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this property

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Middletown, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown1 killedA fatality occurred near the Bourbon - Clark County line. A man was killed after stopping to remove debris from a county road. Strong winds toppled a tree next to the road, hitting him. Several other trees were downed across the county as winds gusted as high as 60 mph.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown$25,000Trees were downed at the intersection of Kentucky Highways 627 and 57. Two barns were damaged in the Little Rock area.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown-There were two trees down on Stoney Point Road.
May 2020Flash FloodNorth Middletown-Highway 460 was closed due to high water.
May 2020Flash FloodNorth Middletown-Three people were water rescued on Gay Road off of US 460.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown-State officials reported several trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown-A law enforcement official reported that several trees were down across eastern Bourbon County due to severe thunderstorm winds. Social media pictures confirmed these reports as well.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Middletown-Trees were downed in many locations around the town.

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Walker Buckner House2.0 miles1997
Cane Ridge Rural Historic District2.5 miles2003
Stoner Creek Rural Historic District3.2 miles2001
Thomas Rodgers House3.4 miles1983
Hopkins House3.8 miles1983
Hillside Farm4.2 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bourbon CountyAll 59 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.