Chestnut Grove

Built in 1876 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Chestnut Grove, in Hardin County, Kentucky near Glendale, Kentucky, was built in 1876. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Chestnut Grove (Glendale, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1876, Italianate architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 222, 1 mi. W of Glendale, Glendale, 42701
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Elizabethtown
When was it built? 1876
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 88001731 - 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Grove between 1999 and 2014, burning about 545 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH DIXIE
6 September 1999	Smoking	201 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	94 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	117 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2014	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEST RHUDES CREEK
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2012	Tornado (EF2)	Glendale	$200,000	A survey determined that an EF-2 tornado with estimated winds of 125 to 130 mph touched down near 4510 Gaither Station Road and traveled 5 miles northeast while crossing Interstate 65. After damaging a barn near its initial touchdown point, the tornado damaged some homes and knocked down many trees and fences while crossing New Glendale and Overall Phillips Roads. After crossing the interstate, it then lifted the roofs off of several homes along Wildwood Drive and Sportmans Lake Road. The tornado attained its maximum width of 250 yards while striking a trucking company. Here, it buckled many roof trusses and spread significant debris over the Lincoln Parkway into a mobile home park. Finally, the tornado destroyed a garage and damaged 3 roofs along Hodgenville Road before lifting several hundred yards east of the road.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$50,000	A roof was blown off a barn onto a mobile home reported by Elizabethtown Department of Emergency Service. Also, many trees were down. A steeple from a church was blown off.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$25,000	Amateur radio operators reported power lines down at the corner of Main Street and Glendale.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$5,000	An amateur radio operator reported to the NWS that trees were down on a house near Dixie Highway.
May 2024	Hail	Glendale	-	Up to quarter sized hail was observed near Glendale.
November 2019	Flash Flood	Glendale	-	Barricades were put up at Bacon Creek Road. There was an inch of water flowing over a road along the Meade County line.
December 2013	Flash Flood	Glendale	-	Flowing water covered Gaither Station Road, making it impassable.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	Trees were blown down across High Street in Glendale.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Glendale	-	Heavy rain of 1.85 inches fell over a two hour period. Water was ponding in low lying areas but roads were passable.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Glendale	-	Highways 210 and 61 near the Larue County line were closed due to high water.
June 2009	Hail	Glendale	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Glendale	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Glendale	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Glendale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Maple Hill	0.5 miles	1988
Maplehurst	0.6 miles	1988
Jacob Van Meter House	0.7 miles	1988
George W. Smith House	1.1 miles	1988
Glendale Historic District	1.1 miles	1988
Ashe House	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001731 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin County	All 89 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.