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One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John Raine House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Raine, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. KY 84, Sonora, 42776
- When was it listed? October 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Hardin County MRA
- Census division. Sonora
- National Register reference number. 88001748 - 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
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of John Raine House between 1999 and 2019, burning about 391 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WONDERLAND RD. |
| 6 September 2010 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 84 |
| 26 September 1999 | Smoking | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Smoking | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | AMISH ROAD |
| 17 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | UPTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Raine House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
17 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonora, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | $75,000 | Amateur radio operators reported power lines and structural damage in the area. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | $75,000 | A barn was destroyed. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | Power lines were down in Upton. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | Local law enforcement officials reported trees down across Hardin County as a result of severe thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | The public reported that a tree fell on a house at 138 North Maple Street. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Sonora | - | Water was covering Dixie Highway between Upton and Sonora. |
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | A NWS Storm Survey team investigated damage in Hardin and Larue Counties in central Kentucky near Upton. The area of damage was located approximately 0.8 miles north of Upton and continued eastward for a third of a mile across U.S. Highway 31W just inside the Larue County line. The damage encompassed an area about 1500 yards wide.||Several hardwood and cedar trees and 12 power poles were knocked over in a west-to-east direction. A tobacco barn was destroyed near the county line along with two other farm barns. Two cows inside one of the barns were killed and one of the barns partially landed on a house. A 4500 pound tractor was also moved 12 feet from west to east. |
| January 2006 | Hail | Sonora | - | Hail reported at Upton. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | Power lines were downed. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| January 2006 | Hail | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonora | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Sonora | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josiah Phillips House | 0.3 miles | 1988 | |
| William Tichenor House | 1.5 miles | 1988 | |
| John D. Bland House | 1.6 miles | 1988 | |
| Nolin Banking Company | 2.6 miles | 1988 | |
| Haynes Mason House | 3.0 miles | 1988 | |
| Adam Monin House | 3.1 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001748 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.