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Abraham Ditto House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Abraham Ditto House, at 204 Elm St. in West Point, Kentucky, is a historic house built in 1823. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Abraham Ditto House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
  • Listed as. Ditto, Abraham, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 204 Elm St., West Point, 40177
  • When was it listed? October 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Hardin County MRA
  • Census division. West Point
  • National Register reference number. 88001789 - 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Abraham Ditto House between 1997 and 2016, burning about 508 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOINTE BLVD FIRE
3 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEAVERS RUN FIRE
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Abraham Ditto House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kosmos Cement DivisionStoneProducer
Kosmosdale PitStoneProducer

Every working 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ditto-Prewitt Houseunder 500 feet1988
Kentucky and Indiana Bankunder 500 feet1988
James Young House and Innunder 500 feet1978
Applegate-Fisher House0.1 miles1988
West Point Hotel0.2 miles1988
West Point Historic District0.2 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001789 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin CountyAll 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.