Calico & Brown General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 67 National Register listings published here for Garrard County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. KY 52, Paint Lick, 40461
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Garrard County MRA
Census division. Paint Lick
National Register reference number. 85001281 - 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Calico & Brown General Store between 1997 and 2008, burning about 74 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
16 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 February 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 November 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

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 Calico & Brown General Store: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Harmony Church Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect
	Price Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paint Lick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paint Lick	-	Telephone poles were broken off at 1792 Kirksville Road.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Paint Lick	-	Numerous trees were down on the Garrard County side of the Garrard-Madison county line. The debris pattern indicated a tornado touchdown.

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Paint Lick Commercial District	0.1 miles	2014
William Miller Place	0.1 miles	1985
Paint Lick School	0.6 miles	2007
Michael Wallace House	1.6 miles	1983
Isaac Metcalf House	2.0 miles	1985
Paint Lick Presbyterian Church	2.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001281 in Record Group 79.
Garrard County	All 67 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.