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Elijah Herndon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Elijah Herndon House is located in California, Kentucky and built in the Federal style in 1818. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Elijah Herndon House, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Herndon, Elijah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NW of California on Washington Trace Rd., California, 41007
  • When was it listed? October 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Grants Lick
  • National Register reference number. 83002604 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Elijah Herndon House: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Brush Creek ClayClayProspect
Franklin Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this property

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names California, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCalifornia$3,000Several large trees were downed along Washington Trace Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCalifornia$2,000A few trees were downed.
May 2003HailCalifornia$2,000Several trees were knocked down along with the hail.
July 2001Flash FloodCalifornia-Church basement flooded in town
October 2016HailCalifornia-no account filed
July 2011HailCalifornia-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
John Stevens House2.7 miles2024
Walter House5.2 miles2007
Andrew Ritter Farm5.2 miles1983
Ort-Heeb Farm5.4 miles1983
Gubser-Schuchter Farm5.4 miles1983
Nicholas Kremer House5.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002604 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.