Ben Moran House

Built in 1818 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Ben Moran House, is a historical residence in Mason County, Kentucky, which was built in 1818. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, as part of a study of early stone houses in Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Ben Moran House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1818, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

Listed as. Moran, Ben, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Intersection of KY 8 and KY 10, Moranburg, 41056
When was it listed? January 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
Census division. Maysville
When was it built? 1818
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 87000161 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ben Moran House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Buckeye Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Franfort Mtls. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this property

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moranburg, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Moranburg	$7,500	A roof was partially removed from a house.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Moranburg	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down on Navaho Drive.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Moranburg	$3,000	Several trees and large branches were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Moranburg	$2,000	A couple of trees were downed in the Maysville area.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Moranburg	$1,000	A tree was blown down and was blocking Route 8 due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2022	Flood	Moranburg	-	High water was reported on Mary Ingles Highway.
August 2022	Hail	Moranburg	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Moranburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Pogue House	2.5 miles	2005
Valley Pike Covered Bridge	2.6 miles	1976
Point Au View	3.2 miles	1985
West 2nd Street Historic District	3.2 miles	2017
Newdigate-Reed House	3.2 miles	1975
Henry Perviance Peers House	3.3 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000161 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 43 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.