Thompson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 22 and Old Giltner Rd., Eminence, 40019
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Census division. Eminence
National Register reference number. 87000567 - 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Thompson House between 2001 and 2014, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
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
20 July 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	97 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2001	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL RUN
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 February 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOODY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eminence, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	$200,000	Local broadcast media reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew off a roof from a modular home. Four to five barns were destroyed. A mobile home was destroyed near Watkins Lane. Numerous trees were downed, and several boards were peeled off a fence.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged a car and a house.
October 2014	Hail	Eminence	$1,000	Local media reported that near Eminence, 1.75 inch hail cracked the windshield of a car.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	Trees and power lines fell down in Eminence.
May 2016	Hail	Eminence	-	A trained spotter reported hail 1.5 inches in diameter.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a large tree down in Eminence due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	A barn was blown down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
October 2014	Hail	Eminence	-	The first of two supercells that crossed southern Henry County brought quarter sized hail to Eminence.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	Numerous trees were downed county wide.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2005	Hail	Eminence	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Eminence	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Eminence	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Eminence	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Eminence	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Eminence Historic Commercial District	1.0 miles	1979
Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument in Eminence	1.1 miles	1997
Crutcher House	1.5 miles	1980
Callaway-Goodridge-Robertson Farm	3.6 miles	2010
Highlands	4.4 miles	1979
Samuel Hieatt House	4.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000567 in Record Group 79.
Henry County	All 13 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.