Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“Bracken Baptist Church is a historic church on CR 1235 in Minerva, Kentucky. The Bracken Baptist Church (structure), built circa 1840-1842, is an example of prostyle Greek Revival church architecture.”
Wikipedia article Bracken Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83002821- 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
1 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bracken Baptist Church
in 1997, burning about 3 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
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Bracken Baptist Church: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Minerva, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado.
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.
The tornado began within the town of Minerva, Kentucky causing tree and minor structural damage. Numerous trees were observed to be uprooted and snapped along Minerva Tuckahoe Road, consistent with EF1 intensity. Additionally, a structure was damaged on T Wenz Road, which confirmed the estimated EF1 intensity, with considerable roof coverage loss and a partial collapse of the second story brick wall. Due to a lack of access along the rest of T Wenz Road and Lee Creek, it is unknown how many trees and builders were damaged. The last known sign of damage, a few trees uprooted, was observed along Tuckahoe Road. It is believed the tornado dissipated before the Ohio River.
A supercell tracked across the county causing significant damage. Numerous trees were knocked down around Minerva, trees were downed and a barn roof was blown off in Washington, and trees and power lines were downed in Maysville. Roofs were also blown off houses in Maysville.
The tornado touched down between the AA Highway and Kentucky 435. Damage was found along Kentucky 435, Minerva Tuckahoe Road, and Tuckahoe Road. Some of the heaviest and most concentrated tree damage was found very near the Ohio River on South Ripley Road, and adjacent areas of Mary Ingles Highway (Highway 8). The survey team found tree and agricultural building damage along the length of the path in Mason County. The vast majority of structural damage in Mason County consisted of barns and outbuildings with roof panels removed. The concentrated area of tree damage near the Ohio River showed clear signs of convergent damage patterns and cross-axis debris fall to the path of the circulation, confirming the likelihood of a tornadic circulation.||Across the Ohio River in the eastern side of Ripley, tree and shingle damage was found on Pearl Street, Kevin Drive, and portions of Elizabeth Street. There was little to no evidence of damage up the steep river bluff above the city of Ripley, suggesting the tornado was lifting as it moved into the city.
The tornado developed in the town of Minerva where it caused minor damage on Minerva Tuckahoe Road. From there, the tornado traveled along T Wenz Road, north of Minerva Tuckahoe Road. Several outbuildings were destroyed along with damage to homes and farm equipment. The tornado dissipated over Lee Creek, west of Tuckahoe Road.
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
5 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.
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.
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