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One of 37 National Register listings published here for Barren County · listed in 1987 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Belle's Tavern
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. KY 255, Park City, 42160
- When was it listed? January 1987
- Category. site
- Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
- Census division. Cave City
- National Register reference number. 87000169 - 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
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Belle's Tavern between 1995 and 2012, burning about 103 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | CEDARHILL2 |
| 3 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | HOGAN |
| 19 April 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | CEDAR HILL |
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | 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 Belle's Tavern: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park City | $300,000 | A path of straight line wind damage occurred along and after the path of an associated tornado southeast of Park city. The most significant damage was to a mobile home that was destroyed when thunderstorm winds blew in the back wall and ripped the roof off of it on Gateway Court. Three occupants were covered by a collapsing wall, but were unhurt. Four barns were destroyed or severely damaged in the area. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park City | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a mobile home on Gateway Court. Four occupants of the mobile home were uninjured. Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park City | $10,000 | A tree was uprooted and fell on to a car on U.S. Highway 31W. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park City | - | Numerous trees were downed along U.S. Route 31W in northwestern Barren County. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park City | - | A storm survey found several downed trees near Park City, in western Barren County. This damage was within a larger swath of damage caused by estimated 50 to 70 mph winds. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Park City | - | Water was running over the road at Gateway Ct. The road department had to put up barriers. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Park City | - | Penny size hail covered the ground in spots. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Park City | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Park City | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Park City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Renfro Hotel | under 500 feet | 1983 |
| Rock Cabin Camp | 3.1 miles | 2017 | |
| Andrew McCoy House | 5.8 miles | 1983 | |
 | Cave City Commercial District | 5.9 miles | 1983 |
| Gullian Gerig's Mill | 6.5 miles | 1987 | |
| Wigwam Village No. 2 | 6.8 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000169 in Record Group 79. |
| Barren County | All 37 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.