South Greenup District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greenup County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by the C & O Railroad, Laurel St., Seaton Ave., and Washington St., Greenup, 41144
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Greenup MRA
Census division. Greenup
National Register reference number. 87002443 - 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

175 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of South Greenup District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,009 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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
Debris and open burning	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Arson/incendiarism	43
Recreation and ceremony	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	JANIE FIRE
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	250 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11905
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SNAP 2 FIRE
9 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Greenup District: 6 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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	Recorded
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill Plant & Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Bush-Corn Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Hoods Run Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Madden Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Smith Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenup, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 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 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Greenup	$2,000,000	A broken path of damage was noted on the Kentucky side of the tornado track, beginning at the Riverview Cemetery west of Greenup. Additional damage occurred on Seaton Avenue near South 5th Street and in the Greenup Fairgrounds, where a few buildings suffered roof damage and a large tree fell onto another building. The tornado then likely tracked along the Ohio River before intersecting land again on the Kentucky side and causing roof and tree damage to several homes along Calumet Drive.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Greenup	$500,000	Serious urban street flooding occurred around such communities as Bellefonte, Russell, and Flatwoods. Water surrounded homes and businesses. A trailer was swept away in Flatwoods. A few rural streams, such as Indian Run, flooded in the eastern portion of the county. Damage to roads occurred.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$80,000	A section of roof was blown off an apartment building, damaging some vehicles in the adjacent parking lot.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$40,000	Trees were blown down in the town of Greenup. Overhead wires were brought down by the trees. At least one vehicle was damaged when a garage door was blown off.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Greenup	$15,000	Route 827 was flooded and closed along Coal Branch. No dwellings were known to flood. Rain estimates were around 2 inches in 1 to 2 hours.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Greenup	$10,000	Rains of 1.5 to 2 inches in an hour caused urban street and poor drainage flooding. Underpasses were briefly closed.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Greenup	$10,000	Streams feeding the East Fork of the Little Sandy River flooded and damaged roads. White Oak Creek also overflowed.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$5,000	Several trees were blown down, but no significant damage occurred to structures.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$5,000	Several trees were blown down. Some trees fell onto power lines.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$5,000	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$2,000	Within the Greenup township, a tree was blown down across State Route 2, taking down phone and cable lines as well. Down the road near Wurtland, another tree fell down onto Leadingham Road near State Route 207.
February 2020	Flood	Greenup	$2,000	As the Ohio River began to rise in the town of Greenup, 5th Street was closed due to flooding.
February 2020	Flood	Greenup	$2,000	The Ohio River rose above its 54 foot minor flood stage at the Lloyd Greenup Lock on the morning of the 14th, cresting around 55 feet just after midnight on the 15th. The river returned to its banks later on that afternoon. Minor flooding of mainly low-lying areas from backwater occurred.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$1,500	Tree and power line damage occurred along Henson Road in Greenup.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$1,000	Large branches were blown down.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$1,000	Fallen trees were along Route 2.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$1,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$500	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Flatwoods.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	$200	A tree was blown down along State Route 3307 between Greenup and Little Sandy.
February 2011	Flood	Greenup	-	Near the mouth of the East Fork of the Little Sandy River, Route 207 was flooded. Nearby, the water from Grassy Creek flooded Route 1459 in the Low Gap vicinity.
June 2010	Hail	Greenup	-	Nickel size hail fell.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Trees fell across Route 3307.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenup	-	Trees were blown down along Route 1 and Route 2.
March 2011	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
December 2005	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Greenup	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Warnock House	0.1 miles	1988
Greenup Masonic Lodge	0.1 miles	1988
West Main Street District	0.2 miles	1988
Methodist Episcopal Church South	0.2 miles	1988
Front Street District	0.2 miles	1988
Kouns-Hoffman House	0.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002443 in Record Group 79.
Greenup County	All 18 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.