BlockFrom the record
One of 59 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hopkins House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. KY 537, North Middletown, 40311
- When was it listed? June 1983
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
- Census division. North Middletown
- National Register reference number. 83002563 - 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
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hopkins House between 2000 and 2009, burning about 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 November 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
8 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Middletown | 1 killed | A 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Middletown | $25,000 | Trees were downed at the intersection of Kentucky Highways 627 and 57. Two barns were damaged in the Little Rock area. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Middletown | - | There were two trees down on Stoney Point Road. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | North Middletown | - | Highway 460 was closed due to high water. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | North Middletown | - | Three people were water rescued on Gay Road off of US 460. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Middletown | - | State officials reported several trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | North 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Middletown | - | Trees were downed in many locations around the town. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Snow Hill | 0.7 miles | 1997 |
| Little Rock-Jackstown Road Rural Historic District | 1.4 miles | 2004 | |
| Pocket Rural Historic District | 2.7 miles | 2003 | |
| Bayless Quarters | 3.1 miles | 1983 | |
 | Walker Buckner House | 3.5 miles | 1997 |
| Ephram Harrod House | 3.8 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002563 in Record Group 79. |
| Bourbon County | All 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.
- 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.