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Peter Barth Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Peter Barth Farm, on Lower Tug Fork Rd. near Alexandria, Kentucky, is a historic farm established in the early to mid-nineteenth century. The farm complex includes a log home, stone smokehouse, and stone storage building.”

Wikipedia article Peter Barth Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Campbell 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Barth, Peter, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Lower Tug Fork Rd., Alexandria, 41059
  • When was it listed? March 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. German Settlement, Four Mile Creek Area TR
  • Census division. Alexandria
  • National Register reference number. 83002594 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Peter Barth Farm: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brewer Co Plant No 10 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brush Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this property

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexandria, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 8 flash flood, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$20,000Heavy tree damage occurred in a cemetery. Most of these trees were snapped off and uprooted. There was minor structural damage to roofs and shingles on a few residences. Damaging thunderstorms winds were determined to be the cause.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Numerous large trees were down in Alexandria and surrounding areas due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000A tree fell on a house near Alexandria due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Flash FloodAlexandria$10,000A road near State Route 10 was washed out. High water closed several other roads throughout the county.
March 2008FloodAlexandria$10,000Several roads were flooded and closed, including Dodsworth Lane at State Routes 8 and 1998, Twelvemile Road in Oneonta, and State Route 9 at Interstate 275 in Highland Heights.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Trees downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$8,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Several trees were downed in the Alexandria area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees with 6 inch diameter trunks were knocked down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees were downed in the Alexandria area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000A large tree was downed and a porch was uplifted and blown downwind several hundred feet.
July 2010Flash FloodAlexandria$5,000Part of Lower Tug Fork Road was washed away by flood waters.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Trees were knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Trees were blown down, one of which blew through a store window.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$3,000Trees and power lines downed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$2,000Multiple power lines were snapped at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Poplar Ridge Road.
April 2007HailAlexandria$2,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000A large, hardwood tree was split.
January 2012FloodAlexandria$1,000Several rural roads in the county were reported closed due to high water caused by recent heavy rain.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000Large branches were reported broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2007HailAlexandria$1,000no account filed
August 2024Flash FloodAlexandria-A road was closed due to high water flowing across it.
September 2018FloodAlexandria-A couple of roads were closed due to high water.
February 2018Flash FloodAlexandria-Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
October 2016Flash FloodAlexandria-A few roads across Kenton County were closed due to high water.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Large limbs were blown down in the eastern part of the county.
March 2006Flash FloodAlexandria-Numerous roads were flooded. A few homes sustained basement flooding in town.
July 2006Flash FloodAlexandria-Water was knee deep along Alexandria Pike.
May 2002Flash FloodAlexandria-Three roads were closed by high water in town.
June 2000HailAlexandria-Nickel hail was reported.
April 2025HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2020HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2018HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
April 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2011HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2011HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2009HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
July 1998HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 1998HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 1997HailAlexandria-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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
Reitman House0.6 miles1983
John Weber Farm0.7 miles2007
Camp Spring House0.7 miles1983
St John's Lutheran Cemetery0.8 miles1983
Uebel House0.8 miles1983
Kort Grocery0.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002594 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Campbell CountyAll 72 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.