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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
McKinney-Helm 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.
- Address. 218 W. Poplar St., Elizabethtown
- When was it listed? October 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Hardin County MRA
- Census division. Fort Knox
- Architectural style. Federal architecture
- National Register reference number. 88001795 - 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.
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 McKinney-Helm House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Knox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1974Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1974: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 57 injuries. 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 1974 | Tornado (F4) | Elizabethtown | 2 killed, 57 hurt, $250,000 | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haycraft Inn | 5.9 miles | 1988 | |
 | Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky | 6.1 miles | 1988 |
| Louisville-Nashville Turnpike Segment | 7.7 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001795 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.
- 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.