BlockFrom 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
Rankin Place
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Old Danville Rd., Lancaster, 40444
- When was it listed? June 1985
- Category. building
- Also known as. Garrard County MRA
- Census division. Lancaster
- National Register reference number. 85001294 - 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 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rankin Place between 2003 and 2013, burning about 41 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SOUTH FORK |
| 3 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rankin Place: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Burdette Deposit | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
45 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $30,000 | A 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 2013 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | $20,000 | Five hundred feet of Highway 1150 was washed away by flash flooding between mile markers 0 and 1. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | $20,000 | There were several houses with water in the basement. Bethel Christian Church had 6 feet of water inside. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | $10,000 | A 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | $2,000 | A spotter reported that thunderstorm winds partially removed the roof off of a barn. Many large tree limbs were downed as well. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees were blown down across Sugar Creek Road near the intersection of Lexington Road. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A tree was blown down across the 200 block of Lexington Road in Lancaster. |
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kentucky Route 52 and Boones Creek Road. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Water was over Crab Orchard Road. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Dispatch reported trees down 2 miles north of Lancaster. |
| November 2019 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Broadcast media and county dispatch reported high water was over county roads. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Lancaster | - | A little water was over Old Danville Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees down at Richmond Street and South Campbell Street. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | The public reported trees down at the local elementary school. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | State officials reported trees and limbs down on power lines. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Local law enforcement reported high water over Richmond Road in Lancaster. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Local law enforcement reported a few trees down in the town of Lancaster due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lancaster | - | Golf ball size was reported in Lancaster by the public. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A Garrard County law enforcement official reported that numerous trees were down across the county. There were no reports of structural damage. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A bow echo downed multiple trees across the county, including some in Lancaster. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lancaster | - | Local broadcast media relayed a report of one inch hail in Lancaster. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | 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 2013 | Flood | Lancaster | - | A Garrard County official reported some minor flooding issues across the county, although no roads were closed. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Law enforcement from Lancaster reported a few trees down around the town. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A county official reported trees down near Danville Road, State Highway 52, Polly's Bend Road, and Kennedy Bridge Road. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees and power lines were blown down just south of Lancaster. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees were downed throughout the county. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Numerous trees were downed county wide. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | Water covered Old Danville Road west of Lancaster in several locations. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
8,656 digitised pages1 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Central Record | 18?? 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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonta-Owsley House | 1.8 miles | 1985 | |
| Dr. Edwards House | 2.0 miles | 2008 | |
| Petrie House | 2.1 miles | 1984 | |
| Barlow House | 2.1 miles | 1985 | |
| Dunn-Watkins House | 2.1 miles | 1985 | |
 | Gov. William Owsley House | 2.3 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001294 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.