Brandenburg Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Brandenburg Commercial District, on Main St. in Brandenburg, Kentucky, is a 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Brandenburg Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Meade County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main St., Brandenburg, 40108
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. district
Census division. Brandenburg
National Register reference number. 86000523 - 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Brandenburg Commercial District between 2001 and 2011, burning about 43 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 April 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE
2 April 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brandenburg Commercial District: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
No. 4 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lucas Corp. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Neely Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Meade County

Storms near this property

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brandenburg, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 3 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
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	3 hurt, $30,000	Two trailers were destroyed, and 4 were damaged. Trees and power lines downed.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	$50,000	Trees and power lines down. Mobile home off its foundation. Relayed by Department of Emergency Service.
March 2002	Hail	Brandenburg	$10,000	Vehicles were damaged by large hail.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	$7,000	A semi trailer was blown over. Also many trees were downed.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	$5,000	A Meade County official reported trees and power lines down in the area.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A business sign was blown down by strong winds.
March 2025	Hail	Brandenburg	-	Half dollar sized hail was observed in Brandenburg.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Wind gust was measured by the mesonet.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A tree was downed along Kentucky Route 79 south of Brandenburg.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Multiple instances of strong winds bringing down trees and power lines were observed across Meade County, including in Brandenburg.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	There were trees and power lines down on Old State Road in Brandenburg.
January 2023	Hail	Brandenburg	-	Nickel-sized hail observed in Brandenburg.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A tree was reported down at Quail Run Road and Garrett Road.
April 2015	Hail	Brandenburg	-	Quarter size hail was reported near Brandenburg.
April 2015	Hail	Brandenburg	-	The public reported quarter size hail in Brandenburg.
April 2015	Hail	Brandenburg	-	Public reported penny size hail near Brandenburg.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Local law enforcement noted numerous trees and power lines downed across the county.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A spotter in Brandenburg reported several large limbs downed.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A spotter reported trees down in Brandenburg.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	The Brandenburg fire department reported that a metal shed was destroyed.
March 2012	Hail	Brandenburg	-	Baseball-sized hail was observed near Brandenburg.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A tree was toppled by thunderstorm winds in Brandenburg. Widespread power outages developed city wide.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Local law enforcement reported numerous trees down between Battletown and Brandenburg.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	A spotter reported dime sized hail and several trees that had fallen across some power lines in Brandenburg.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	An off duty employee estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees were blown down along Bud Wilson Rd.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees and power lines were reported down at the intersection of Highways 448 and 1638.
December 2007	Flood	Brandenburg	-	An intersection was closed due to high water.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Brandenburg	-	Water was over roadways.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees were downed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Power lines were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Several large trees were downed.
December 2002	Flash Flood	Brandenburg	-	Highway 448 was covered by water.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Numerous trees were downed, and there was unspecified structural damage along Highway 60. Telephone poles were also downed.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Trees down
January 2000	Flash Flood	Brandenburg	-	Several roads flooded
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Telephone poles were snapped by thunderstorm winds.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	Several trees down in Brandenburg and Paynesburg.
May 2012	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
January 2006	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
January 2006	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Brandenburg	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brandenburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Edward Yeakel House	under 500 feet	1984
Jones-Willis House	under 500 feet	1984
Meade County Jail	0.1 miles	1984
Meade County Clerk Office-Rankin House	0.2 miles	1984
Brandenburg Methodist Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1984
Richardson House	0.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Meade County	All 12 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.