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Ice House on Little Muddy Creek

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Ice House on Little Muddy Creek is the ruins of an old stone structure meant to hold ice near Morgantown, Kentucky, placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1987, as part of the Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.”

Wikipedia article Ice House on Little Muddy Creek, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. US 231, Morgantown, 42261
  • When was it listed? January 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
  • Census division. Morgantown
  • National Register reference number. 87000171 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ice House on Little Muddy Creek between 1997 and 2014, burning about 259 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 August 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Recreation and ceremony75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDIMPLE RD.
24 March 1997Arson/incendiarism70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

55 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgantown, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 35 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodMorgantown$20,000Water was running through the Tucks Apartments on Saw Mill Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMorgantown$5,000Local law enforcement reported a power line down on a residence on North Tyler Street in Morgantown.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorgantown$1,000The Butler County emergency manager reported that a large tree fell on a deck.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Multiple trees were blown down in Morgantown.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Power poles were broken by strong winds in Morgantown.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-There were reports of trees down throughout the county.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-There were power outages across the county from multiple power lines and trees being blown down.
June 2020Flash FloodMorgantown-County roads were closed due to flash flooding on the west side of Morgantown along Highway 70.
May 2017HailMorgantown-Trained spotters reported dime sized hail.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Local law enforcement reported several trees down in Morgantown.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-The Butler County emergency manager reported numerous trees down in the area along with standing water on some city streets.
July 2016Flash FloodMorgantown-The Butler County emergency manager reported 4 to 6 inches of swiftly flowing water across Highway 231 near Woodbury Loop Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-The Butler County emergency manager reported a 52 knot gust as severe thunderstorms moved through the area.
June 2015HailMorgantown-A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report of 1.5 inch diameter hail from a viewer.
June 2015HailMorgantown-A trained spotter reported 1 inch diameter hail.
April 2015HailMorgantown-A trained spotter reported penny size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-The Butler County emergency manager reported trees down in and around Morgantown.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Law enforcement reported trees down in Morgantown. Two spotters also in Morgantown reported nickel sized hail at around the same time.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Local law enforcement reported that a few trees were downed across the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Several trees fell and damaged some trailers.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Tom's Building supply sustained some structural damage. Several large trees were also blown down in town.
June 2011Flash FloodMorgantown-Local emergency management reported that heavy rain had flooded numerous roads across the county.
June 2011HailMorgantown-Public reported golf ball sized hail that fell between 552 and 607 pm CDT.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Three reports were called in of trees down blocking roadways in Butler county.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees downed on Russellville Road south of Morgantown.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees were downed in Morgantown.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Power lines were downed and power was out in Morgantown.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees were reported down five miles south of Morgantown.
August 2009Flash FloodMorgantown-Water over 6 inches deep flooded State Highway 231 just south of Morgantown.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Thunderstorm winds downed trees across roadways.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Thunderstorm winds downed trees across roadways.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Several trees were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Power lines were downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees were downed.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-A few trees were downed.
September 2006Flash FloodMorgantown-One road was washed out, and another was closed due to high water.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Numerous trees were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees were downed.
November 2004Flash FloodMorgantown-Sandy Creek Road was flooded and impassable.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees were downed.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Trees down.
April 1999HailMorgantown-Dime size hail
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-A few trees down
January 1999Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-Several trees down across county
March 2020HailMorgantown-no account filed
May 2016HailMorgantown-no account filed
April 2011HailMorgantown-no account filed
June 2011HailMorgantown-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-no account filed
May 2006HailMorgantown-no account filed
April 2003HailMorgantown-no account filed
April 2003HailMorgantown-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMorgantown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Finney Hotel3.1 miles1995
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Superintendent's House and Workmen's Office3.2 miles1980
John Carson House4.9 miles1991
Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown5.0 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler CountyAll 7 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.
  • 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.