Richardson Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Dead Man's Cave Rd., White Mills, 42740
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Sonora
National Register reference number. 88001762 - 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

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Richardson Hotel between 2003 and 2014, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 June 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EASTVIEW BARRENS FIRE
15 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHAW CREEK ROAD
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Richardson Hotel: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
No. 3 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Big Clifty Sandstone Exposure	Silica	Prospect
Eastview Abandoned Sandstone Pit	Silica	Past Producer
Railroad Overpass Sandstone Outcrop	Silica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Mills, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2003: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	$8,000	A 200 year old maple tree was blown on to a car.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	White Mills	-	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
Hatfield Hotel	under 500 feet	1988
White Mill	under 500 feet	1988
Dr. Clyde Carroll House	0.3 miles	1988
William Sprigg House	2.9 miles	1989
Richard Skees House	3.0 miles	1988
William Skees House	3.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001762 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.