Abe Souther House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Souther, Abe, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off KY 237, Francisville, 41048
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
Census division. Hebron
National Register reference number. 87000143 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Abe Souther House: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, 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	Recorded
Constance Yard	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bunnell Gravel Pit Number 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cargill Salt Terminal	Salt	Past Producer
Cincinnati Salt Service	Salt	Past Producer
Cincinnati Warehouse	Salt	Past Producer
D & M Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Taylorsport Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Francisville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 hail, 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Francisville	$4,000	A few trees were downed along River Road.
June 2011	Hail	Francisville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
A. J. Aylor House	2.2 miles	1989
Allie Corn House	2.2 miles	1989
Watts House	2.3 miles	1987
Hebron Deposit Bank	2.3 miles	1989
Rev. Robert E. Kirtley House	3.1 miles	1989
Cave Johnson House	3.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000143 in Record Group 79.
Boone County	All 101 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.
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.