BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bracken County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mordecai Chalfant House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Listed as. Chalfant, Mordecai, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. KY 8, Augusta, 41043
- When was it listed? January 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
- Census division. Augusta
- Architectural style. Federal architecture
- National Register reference number. 87000142 - 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
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mordecai Chalfant House in 2004, burning about 10 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mordecai Chalfant House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedron Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Howerton Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
30 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Augusta, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Augusta | 1 killed, $250,000 | Five to seven inches of rain produced widespread flash flooding across Bracken County. Two homes were washed away off of Augusta-Minerva Road, killing one man (M82MH). Several other homes in the area sustained damage due to the high water. About 20 boats broke from their moorings on Bracken Creek and were washed into the Ohio River. Several roads across the area also sustained damage due to the rushing water. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $100,000 | A supercell tracked across the county causing significant damage. Roofs were blown off a barn and a restaurant. Between 50 and 100 trees were blown down between Augusta and Germantown, which is on the border of Mason county. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $15,000 | The roof of a ferry was blown off and small trees were blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $15,000 | Large tree branches, a barn, and trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines knocked down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $5,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $4,000 | A few trees were downed along Mary Ingles Highway. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $4,000 | Several trees were knocked down on Dutch Ridge Rd. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $3,000 | Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $3,000 | Trees were downed along State Route 8 just outside of Augusta. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $3,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $2,000 | Several trees were reported knocked down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $2,000 | Two trees were knocked down. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $2,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $2,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Augusta | $2,000 | High water was across several roads in Augusta due to heavy rainfall. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Augusta | $1,000 | One tree was downed across a road near Germantown. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Augusta | - | High water was reported on 2nd Street in downtown Augusta near Main Street and Elizabeth Street. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Augusta | - | High water was reported on several streets in Augusta. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Augusta | - | The local fire department reported about four minutes of dime sized hail. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Augusta | - | High water closed several streets in Augusta. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Augusta | - | State Route 8 was washed out. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Augusta | - | High water on roads. Augusta-Minerva Road was impassable. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Augusta | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Augusta | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Augusta | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Augusta | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rock Spring Warehouse | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Walcott Covered Bridge | 2.4 miles | 1975 |
 | Bradford School House | 3.3 miles | 2003 |
| Confederate Monument in Augusta | 3.8 miles | 1997 | |
 | J. R. Minor House | 4.0 miles | 1984 |
 | Alfonso McKibben House | 4.0 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000142 in Record Group 79. |
| Bracken County | All 23 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.