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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
Heller Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Robinson St., Cecilia, 42724
- When was it listed? October 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Hardin County MRA
- Census division. Cecilia
- National Register reference number. 88001756 - 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 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Heller Hotel between 1999 and 2014, burning about 442 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOBLEY |
| 6 September 1999 | Smoking | 201 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 117 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 April 2010 | 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 |
| 26 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cecilia, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Cecilia | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $250,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, some were blown on to mobile homes. Power lines were downed. A cell tower was blown over. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $15,000 | Local broadcast media reported power outages due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $2,000 | Power lines were downed just to the east of Cecilia. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Power poles were blown down along Kentucky Route 86 in Cecilia. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | A railroad crossing gate was broken at its hinges along Hayden School Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | There were numerous trees down and limbs snapped on North Branch Road. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Trees were down along Leitchfield Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | There was a small building blown off of its foundation with debris blown approximately 800 feet downwind. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | The public reported that power poles were knocked down by thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Dispatch reported two trees down in Hardin County. One fell along Valley Creek near Elizabethtown. The other fell along Harris School Road near Cecilia. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Cecilia | - | High water briefly blocked the entrance to the Dollar General Store along Highway 62 near Cecilia. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Trees were reported downed in Cecilia. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Cecilia | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Cecilia | - | Brief tornado touchdown relayed by HAM radio operator. Intensity probably F1. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Cecilia | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Hill | 1.3 miles | 1988 | |
| George W. Smith House | 2.4 miles | 1988 | |
| Maplehurst | 3.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Hagan House | 3.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Stark House | 3.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Jacob Van Meter House | 3.3 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001756 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.
- 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.