Louisa Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Perry, Lock, Madison and S. Lady Washington Sts., Louisa, 41230
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Louisa MRA
Census division. Louisa
National Register reference number. 88002040 - 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Louisa Residential Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,325 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 104 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
Arson/incendiarism	104
Debris and open burning	59
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
8 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TUG RIVER RD.
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	SPRUCE BRANCH
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
4 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	PADDLE CREEK
4 May 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisa, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 5 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
July 2016	Tornado (EF2)	Louisa	5 hurt, $500,000	The tornado did extensive damage to the Louisa Walmart and the Brown Food Service Warehouse. Cars and shipping containers were overturned and moved up to 30 yards in the Walmart parking lot. Structural damage to the Walmart and the Brown Food Service warehouse occurred. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado crossed the Tug Fork into West Virginia before dissipating.\|\|Maximum wind gusts were estimated at 120 mph. There were 5 minor injuries at the Walmart.
March 2012	Hail	Louisa	$325,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$200,000	Several trees were blown down throughout the community. Extensive power outages and scattered damage to structures occurred. The damage also crossed the river to Fort Gay in West Virginia.
March 2012	Hail	Louisa	$200,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$100,000	Several trees were blown down in the city. Roads were blocked and power lines were knocked down. Electricity was interrupted for most of the town.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$75,000	Trees were blown down, blocking roads. Roof damage occurred to a few homes. One mobile home had damage from a fallen tree.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$50,000	Several trees were blown down. A few trees fell on power lines.
July 2000	Flash Flood	Louisa	$40,000	Streams and culverts flooded streets when 1 to 2 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours on saturated ground. A few vehicles were submerged.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$20,000	Several trees were blown down around town, with 1 tree damaging a house.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$20,000	Large trees were blown down.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$15,000	Wind caused roof damage to a building in Louisa. Their metal roof was partially torn from rafters.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$10,000	A gust of 50 mph was measured. A few trees were blown down. One tree fell on a mobile home. A small section of a corrugated metal roof and overhang to a thrift shop was torn off.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$10,000	no account filed
February 2016	Flash Flood	Louisa	$5,000	Streams, such as Lick and Greenbrier Creeks, overflowed and closed roads. A few road examples included Route 32, Greenbrier Road, and Old Lick Road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Louisa	$5,000	Roads were flooded by overflowing small streams and by poor drainage. No dwellings were flooded.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$5,000	Trees were blown down, damaging a few outbuildings.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$5,000	State Police reported trees blown down and across roads in the four counties. In Greenup, a power pole was snapped by the wind causing traffic lights to dangle on Route 23.
May 1997	Hail	Louisa	$5,000	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$5,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$3,000	In Fort Gay, two trees were downed onto Highway 1690. Another two trees were downed onto Highway 2037.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$3,000	no account filed
December 2019	Flood	Louisa	$2,000	Old Lick Creek road was closed due to flooding along Lick Creek and Clayton Branch.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$2,000	Large branches were blown down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$2,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$2,000	Several trees and large branches fell across roads.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$1,500	A tree and power line were blown down along Harley Drive south of Louisa.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$1,500	In Louisa, nearly 100 homes were without power due to downed trees and power lines around the area.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$1,000	Trees fell across Route 32.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	$500	One downed tree was observed on Town Hill Road.
February 2022	Flood	Louisa	$500	High water was observed along Old Lick Creek Road.
January 2025	Flood	Louisa	$150	A low dip in Old Lick Creek Road south of Louisa was underwater throughout the day.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	-	Trees were blown into power lines.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	-	A few trees and large branches fell in town.
June 2015	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Louisa	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

Newspapers printed here

9,533 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,488 issues, 9,533 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Big Sandy News	1885 to 1929

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
First United Methodist Church	under 500 feet	1984
Big Sandy Milling Company	0.1 miles	1988
Louisa United Methodist Church	0.2 miles	1988
Louisa Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	1988
Atkins-Carter House	0.2 miles	1988
Fred M. Vinson Birthplace	0.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002040 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 10 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.
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.