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Dalton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Dalton House in Garrard County, Kentucky, located on Kentucky Route 39 near Lancaster, was built in 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Dalton House (Lancaster, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. KY 39, Lancaster, 40444
  • When was it listed? June 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Garrard County MRA
  • Census division. Lancaster
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85001282 - 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Dalton House between 1997 and 2013, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH FORK
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this property

45 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 5 hail, 2 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLancaster$30,000A metal and wooden barn was destroyed along with several greenhouses. Trees and power lines were down near 1295 and Gillespie with damage to a house.
August 2013Flash FloodLancaster$20,000Five hundred feet of Highway 1150 was washed away by flash flooding between mile markers 0 and 1.
May 2010Flash FloodLancaster$20,000There were several houses with water in the basement. Bethel Christian Church had 6 feet of water inside.
May 2007Flash FloodLancaster$10,000A spotter estimated from two and a half to three inches of rain over a 30 minute period. Drakes Creek Road flooded and lost blacktop in two locations. Three people were trapped in a pickup truck. A metal outbuilding was washed away.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLancaster$2,000A spotter reported that thunderstorm winds partially removed the roof off of a barn. Many large tree limbs were downed as well.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees were blown down across Sugar Creek Road near the intersection of Lexington Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLancaster-A tree was blown down across the 200 block of Lexington Road in Lancaster.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindLancaster-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kentucky Route 52 and Boones Creek Road.
July 2021Flash FloodLancaster-Water was over Crab Orchard Road.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees were reported down on Wesley Drive. The area had three rounds of storms from 1 to 7 AM. It is estimated that the last wave of storms caused this damage.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Dispatch reported trees down 2 miles north of Lancaster.
November 2019Flash FloodLancaster-Broadcast media and county dispatch reported high water was over county roads.
June 2018FloodLancaster-A little water was over Old Danville Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees down at Richmond Street and South Campbell Street.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLancaster-The public reported trees down at the local elementary school.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLancaster-State officials reported trees and limbs down on power lines.
July 2016Flash FloodLancaster-Local law enforcement reported high water over Richmond Road in Lancaster.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Local law enforcement reported a few trees down in the town of Lancaster due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015HailLancaster-Golf ball size was reported in Lancaster by the public.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLancaster-A Garrard County law enforcement official reported that numerous trees were down across the county. There were no reports of structural damage.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLancaster-A bow echo downed multiple trees across the county, including some in Lancaster.
May 2013HailLancaster-Local broadcast media relayed a report of one inch hail in Lancaster.
August 2013Flash FloodLancaster-The Lancaster Fire Dept. reported that Crab Orchard Road was briefly closed due to flash flooding. Buckeye Road was also partially impeded by high water.
August 2013FloodLancaster-A Garrard County official reported some minor flooding issues across the county, although no roads were closed.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Law enforcement from Lancaster reported a few trees down around the town.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLancaster-A county official reported trees down near Danville Road, State Highway 52, Polly's Bend Road, and Kennedy Bridge Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees and power lines were blown down just south of Lancaster.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees were downed throughout the county.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Numerous trees were downed county wide.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLancaster-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2002Flash FloodLancaster-Water covered Old Danville Road west of Lancaster in several locations.
March 2017HailLancaster-no account filed
January 2008HailLancaster-no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
May 2003HailLancaster-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodLancaster-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLancaster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garrard County

Newspapers printed here

8,656 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,292 issues, 8,656 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Central Record18?? to Current

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
Tom Salter House0.9 miles1985
Gov. William Owsley House1.2 miles1975
Perkins-Daniel House1.4 miles1985
Wearren Place1.6 miles1984
Lancaster Cemetery1.6 miles1984
Garrard Mills1.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001282 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garrard CountyAll 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.
  • 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.