Richards-Hamm House

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Richards--Hamm House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KY 1136 0.4 mi. W of US 31W, Glendale, 42740
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Elizabethtown
National Register reference number. 88001766 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Richards-Hamm House between 2002 and 2014, burning about 608 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2

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	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 84
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH DIXIE
28 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	94 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
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

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richards-Hamm House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Highway Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working 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
Richards-Murray House	0.3 miles	1988
Adam Monin House	1.2 miles	1988
John Stuart House	1.3 miles	1988
Nolin Banking Company	1.8 miles	1988
Ashe House	2.5 miles	1988
Glendale Historic District	2.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001766 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.