Old Town Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Old Town Historic District in Hartford, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Old Town Historic District (Hartford, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Ohio County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by E. Union, Clay, E. Washington and Liberty Sts., Hartford, 42347
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Census division. Hartford
National Register reference number. 88002535 - 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Old Town Historic District between 1998 and 2012, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 2012	Natural	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEAGLE CLU
6 April 1998	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this property

56 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 32 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2016	Tornado (EF2)	Hartford	$150,000	A tornado briefly touched down on Spinks Drive just off of Highway 69, initially causing EF-0 damage. The tornado was only on the ground for approximately 200 yards with a path width about 30-40 yards. A basement crawlspace door was blown out along with siding and roof damage at 125 Spinks Dr. There was evidence of isolated straight-line winds with some maple trees on Hamlin Chapel Dr. The tornado touched down for a second time at 41 El Retiro Ln where the path width increased to 50 yards and the winds speed increased to 90-95 mph. Numerous large hardwood trees were snapped and twisted. An outbuilding, previously used to make brooms, next to the house had significant damage when a large tree fell on top of it. The residents observed pea size hail. \|\|The tornado increased in size at 532 Stoneridge Ln. A custom-built home had exterior wall damage in the master bedroom with adjacent bathroom. Their insulation blew out in all directions in the house and the back porch resembled a snow globe. Numerous trees were down along the property as well as a grain silo. The family survived the tornado by sheltering in a 3-foot crawlspace and when they came out, there was quarter-sized hail on the ground. Winds in this area were 110 mph with a path width about 125 yards.\|\|The tornado continued to move east northeast along the countryside uprooting twisting and damaging numerous hardwood trees. The tornado significantly increased in width to approximately 300 yards and did a lot of damage along Halls Creek Rd. At 1130 Halls Creed Road 2-inch hail occurred before the EF-2 tornado, with winds of 111 mph, did significant damage to the property, which included a 30x50 large barn sliding the wall 12 feet.\|\|Along Walnut Rd, the tornado caused damage to several barns and numerous softwood trees and hardwood trees. Metal sheeting from barns was thrown in excess of 400 yards downwind.\|\|At the intersection of Highway 1164 and 1544 at the Cedar Grove Church there was roof damage to the church and many trees were twisted and uprooted. The last visible damage was along Highway 1544 just east of 1164 with some trees uprooted and twisted. About 30 feet from the tree there was an outbuilding that had half its roof blown off and the roof remnants were found about 50 yards away. The tornado lifted approximately 400 yards from Highway 1544 near the intersection of 1164.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds caused severe roof damage to a house.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$20,000	Trees and power lines were down in central Ohio County.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$20,000	Officials reported 5 power poles fell along north Main Street.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$20,000	The roof was blown off a building in Hartford.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$20,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$10,000	Several trees were blown down in Hartford.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	$5,000	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	There were power lines and trees down along Crab Tree Alley.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	There were power lines and trees down near Walnut and Clay Streets.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Hartford	-	The EF-1 tornado touched down briefly near the Rough River. It intensified as it crossed Highway 69, doing significant tree damage and some minor structural damage to homes along Highway 69. The tornado continued to the southeast where it ripped much of the roof of a home along Mill Run Lane, before lifting just before the Hartford, KY Airport.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	Highway 69 was closed between Main Street and Interstate 165 due to high water.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees and power lines were downed across Ohio County, including in and around Hartford.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	A 60 mph wind gust was measured at the Ohio County Mesonet site.
February 2019	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	Roads were reported to be flooded.
May 2019	Hail	Hartford	-	Broadcast media reported that 1.75 inch hail fell along the Natcher Parkway.
February 2018	Flood	Hartford	-	Multiple roads closed due to high water and flooding.
April 2016	Flood	Hartford	-	An Ohio County official reported water over roadways across parts of the county.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees and power lines were reported down in the area.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	A Ohio County official reported trees down in the area.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees were reported down in the area.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	The local department of highways reported numerous trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	The Ohio County emergency manager reported that most city streets were covered by high water due to excessive rainfall.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	A picture on Twitter relayed to the NWS by the public showed a large tree fell down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	An Ohio County law enforcement official reported that Highway 69 north of town was flooded due to excessive rainfall and high water.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	The Ohio County dispatch center reported downed trees blocking the roadway.
March 2012	Hail	Hartford	-	A supercell brought 1 inch hail to Hartford along with extensive wind damage and a report of a funnel cloud.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Two large trees fell across power lines in Hartford.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	Roads were flooded and a few were impassable west of Beaver Dam.
May 2010	Hail	Hartford	-	Local law enforcement from the towns of Hartford, Beaver Dam, and Rockport in Ohio County reported quarter size hail.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees were down across HWY 136.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees were downed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Trees were downed. A spotter estimated wind speeds of up to 70 mph.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	A spotter estimated a 60 mph gust.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Hartford	-	Mount Vernon Road, Lake Lane, and Round Hill Road were all closed and barricaded due to high water.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Power lines were downed.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	A large tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	Large trees down across county
May 2017	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	no account filed
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartford	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Hartford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio County

Newspapers printed here

23,558 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,003 issues, 23,558 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 Hartford Republican	18?? to 1926
The Hartford Herald	1875 to 1926

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
Hartford Seminary	under 500 feet	1973
Downtown Hartford Historic District	0.1 miles	1988
Pendleton House	0.2 miles	1973
Downtown Hartford Historic District	0.2 miles	1988
Samuel E. Hill House	0.5 miles	1980
Bill Monroe Farm	7.9 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ohio County	All 11 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.