Cloverport Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Cloverport Historic District in Cloverport, Kentucky is a 77 acres (31 ha) historic district which is roughly bounded by 3rd, Main, Chestnut, and Lynn Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Cloverport Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Breckinridge County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by 3rd, Main, Chestnut, and Lynn Sts., Cloverport, 40111
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Cloverport MRA
Census division. Cloverport
National Register reference number. 83002589 - 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cloverport Historic District between 1999 and 2014, burning about 416 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
12 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2001	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 March 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TOBINSPORT
11 March 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PIRTLE
7 February 2001	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TOBINSPORT
28 February 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	IRON ORE

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cloverport Historic District: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cloverport Roadcut	Silica	Prospect
Cloverport Sand Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cloverport Pit & Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Roadcut Shale	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this property

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverport, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death and 7 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
April 2002	Tornado (F2)	Cloverport	1 killed, 7 hurt, $750,000	The tornado crossed into central Breckinridge County from Perry County, IN. The tornado lifted periodically as it crossed eastern Breckinridge County, and reached the Irvington area around 0325 EST. A 52 year old male was killed in a mobile home in Irvington. Seven people were injured. A few homes were destroyed and numerous homes were damaged. Two homes had their roofs torn off. Numerous trees were uprooted, and many outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado was estimated at F2 intensity, with spots of F3 damage.
March 2012	Tornado (EF2)	Cloverport	$150,000	This tornado originally touched down 7 miles west of Cloverport in Hancock County. It crossed into Breckinridge County around one mile west of Cloverport and had an intermittent 10 mile track, bringing the total path length across both counties to 17 miles. The twister lifted just west of Cloverport and touched down again just east of town, uprooting numerous soft and hardwood trees. The tornado strengthened to an EF-2 as it destroyed two homes on New Bethel-Cloverport Road. Farther east, near B Flood Road, several other structures received EF-1 damage. Several chicken farms had major damage with a significant loss of poultry. Just before lifting east of Route 269, the tornado downed several trees and did additional damage to a metal structure.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	$50,000	The Emergency Manager reported trees down with one tree on a house and another blocking a road. No injuries were reported.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	$30,000	A tree fell on a house in Cloverport causing power lines to come down as well.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	$5,000	An Amateur radio operator reported areas around Cloverport were without power due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	$5,000	A HAM radio operator relayed a report of two electric poles snapped on Hillside Drive just outside of Cloverport.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	There was a tree down on Highway 105.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	A tree fell down on Highway 105 near Cloverport.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Power outages were reported in Cloverport.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	A tree fell down in the 200 block of 7th Street.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	A large cedar tree fell down on Highway 60 near Kentucky 144.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	There was a tree down on State Road 3199.
February 2018	Flood	Cloverport	-	Local media reported Tar Springs Road bridge flooded with high water flowing over it.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Trees were reported down.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	The county highway department reported several trees downed near Cloverport.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	The local emergency management reported that two trees were downed across roads in the county. One large tree fell across Holt Road 2 miles east of Cloverport. The other fell just west of Hardinsburg near the intersection of State Highways 144 and 992.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	A spotter in Cloversport reported a tree down across a power line.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Power lines were blown down in Cloversport.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Tree damage was reported with winds estimated to be between 55-60 mph.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	A tree was down on HWY 105 near the Cloverport boat ramp.
December 2007	Flood	Cloverport	-	Several county roads were closed due to high water.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Power lines were downed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloverport	-	Dispatch reported trees down.
July 2023	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Cloverport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge County

Newspapers printed here

10,290 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,502 issues, 10,290 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Breckenridge News	1876 to 1955

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

4 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
Skillman House	0.6 miles	1983
Fisher Homestead	1.0 miles	1983
Oglesby-Conrad	1.0 miles	1983
Joseph Holt House and Chapel	5.9 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002589 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Breckinridge County	All 7 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.