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Photograph of Kort Grocery
Photograph by FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kort Grocery

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Kort Grocery, also known as Camp Springs Grocery, is a historic property located on Four Mile Road in Camp Springs, Kentucky, a rural area of Campbell County, Kentucky. The stone building was constructed by Peter Kort in 1880 as part of a settlement built by German immigrants.”

Wikipedia article Kort Grocery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1880.

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.
  • Address. Four Mile Pike, Camp Springs, 41059
  • When was it listed? March 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. German Settlement, Four Mile Creek Area TR
  • Census division. Alexandria
  • When was it built? 1880
  • National Register reference number. 83002606 - 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 Kort Grocery: 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

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
Blau's Four Mile House0.2 miles1983
Reitman's St.Joseph House0.3 miles1983
Leick House0.4 miles1983
St. Joseph's Catholic Church and Cemetery0.4 miles1983
Camp Spring House0.5 miles1983
Matthias Kremer House0.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002606 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.