Benjamin Helm House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Benjamin Helm House is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was built in 1816 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is significant as the home of Benjamin Helm, an early settler of Elizabethtown.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Helm 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. Helm, Benjamin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 238 Helm Ave., Elizabethtown, 42701
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Elizabethtown
National Register reference number. 88001801 - 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

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Benjamin Helm House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 129 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
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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
13 April 2014	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEST RHUDES CREEK

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 Benjamin Helm 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
J. Roy Bond House	under 500 feet	1988
Penniston House	under 500 feet	1988
John B. Helm House	0.1 miles	1988
State Theatre	0.2 miles	1998
Samuel Robertson House	0.2 miles	1988
Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001801 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.