Philip Arnold House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Poplar St. in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is an Italianate-style house built in 1869. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Philip Arnold 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. Arnold, Philip, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 422 E. Poplar St., Elizabethtown, 42701
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Elizabethtown
National Register reference number. 88001798 - 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Philip Arnold House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 129 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	6
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
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
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 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 Philip Arnold House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Cen-Ken Stone Plant No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

1 since 1974

Regional 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

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
George Woodard House	0.3 miles	2003
William Montgomery House	0.4 miles	1988
Montgomery Avenue Historic District	0.4 miles	1988
W. T. Kerrick House	0.5 miles	1988
Brown Pusey House Community Center	0.5 miles	1974
Jonathan Hills House	0.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001798 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.