Bethlehem Academy Historic District

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: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Near jct. of KY 1357 and KY 253, St. John, 42701
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Hardin County MRA
Census division. Cecilia
National Register reference number. 88001813 - 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bethlehem Academy Historic District between 2001 and 2012, burning about 80 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOBLEY
25 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CUSTER FIR
22 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JAMES DUVALL FIRE
19 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 March 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire 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
Blue Ball Church	2.8 miles	1988
Zachariah Riney House	3.7 miles	1988
Heller Hotel	4.2 miles	1988
Stiles McDougal House	5.5 miles	1988
Hazel Hill	5.5 miles	1988
William Bland House	6.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001813 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.