Curd House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. KY 29, Wilmore, 40390
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Jessamine County MRA
Census division. Wilmore
National Register reference number. 84001621 - 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Curd House between 2001 and 2019, burning about 84 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	78 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHINN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Jessamine County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Curd House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chinn Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Barite, Fluorite

Every working recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this property

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmore, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 30 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
May 1995	Tornado (F2)	Wilmore	30 hurt	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$75,000	A NWS Storm Survey team found sporadic wind damage along a 5.5 mile path near Wilmore. Several trees were downed along with some utility poles snapped or bent. There also minor structural damage.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree, and the tree fell through a house.
August 2020	Lightning	Wilmore	$30,000	Lightning struck a tree which brought down power lines and landed on a house.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$25,000	The Jessamine County emergency manager reported numerous trees down across roadways. A roof was blown off a sun room off a residence.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$5,000	A section of a roofing cover was blown off of a building.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$5,000	An old tree was blown on to a house.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	$2,000	Minor damage to structures and some trees down
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	There were reports of several trees down.
May 2022	Hail	Wilmore	-	Baseball-sized hail was observed in Wilmore.
May 2022	Hail	Wilmore	-	Two inch diameter hail was observed near Wilmore.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	There was a report of a tree down on Handys Bend Road.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	Dispatch reported a tree down on Grows Mill Road.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	Multiple trees were down across the western portions of Jessamine County. Some blocked the roadways.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	A broadcast meteorologist reported trees down in the area.
June 2015	Hail	Wilmore	-	A trained spotter reported hail 3/4 inch in diameter.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Wilmore	-	The Jessamine County emergency manager reported that multiple businesses in downtown Wilmore had high water. Also, the EM reported that many streets were flooded across the county.
July 2015	Hail	Wilmore	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail in the area.
July 2015	Hail	Wilmore	-	A trained spotter reported hail 1 inch in diameter.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	The Jessamine County emergency manager reported several trees down just southeast of Wilmore. This same thunderstorm also brought damage to Garrard and Boyle Counties.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	The local emergency manager reported trees downed near Wilmore. Also, some trees were downed across the northwest portion of the county.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Wilmore	-	A trained spotter reported about an inch of rain falling in an hour.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Wilmore	-	Water was reported to be waist deep across State Highway 33 near the Jessamine and Woodford County lines. Other roads were reported as flooded near Keene. Lexington media reported an ongoing water rescue in northern Jessamine County.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	A couple of trees were downed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilmore	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bicknell House	2.2 miles	1984
Stone House on Brooklyn Hill	2.6 miles	1983
East Main Street Historic District	2.9 miles	1994
Lexington and Main Historic District	3.0 miles	1994
Morrison-Kenyon Library	3.0 miles	1985
Kenyon Avenue Historic District	3.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001621 in Record Group 79.
Jessamine County	All 73 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.