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
Rock Spring Warehouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Address. KY 8, Wellsburg, 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
- National Register reference number. 87000175 - 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 Rock Spring Warehouse 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 Rock Spring Warehouse: 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
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellsburg, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 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 | Wellsburg | $5,000 | Several trees were downed along Mary Ingles Highway W between Foster and Augusta. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsburg | $4,000 | Several trees were knocked down along Walcott-Johnsville Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsburg | $3,000 | Several trees were downed near Kentucky Route 8 due to thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mordecai Chalfant House | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Walcott Covered Bridge | 2.5 miles | 1975 |
 | Bradford School House | 2.7 miles | 2003 |
| Confederate Monument in Augusta | 4.3 miles | 1997 | |
 | J. R. Minor House | 4.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Alfonso McKibben House | 4.5 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000175 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.