Allensville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Allensville Historic District, along Kentucky Route 102/Main St. in Allensville, Kentucky, is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included 40 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Allensville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd 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 listing

Address. KY 102/Main St., Allensville, 42204
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Census division. Guthrie
National Register reference number. 88002611 - 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Allensville Historic District between 2000 and 2007, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	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
10 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 February 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allensville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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	Flash Flood	Allensville	$40,000	Extensive flash flooding of roads occurred. Highway 181 was flooded south from Highway 1753 to Highway 848. A school bus was stuck in the water, but no children were on board. Highway 102 was flooded from Elkton to Highway 79. Business Route 68 in Elkton was flooded. Other flooded roads included Highway 104 from Elkton to Trenton, Highway 102 in Allensville, and Highway 848 near Anderson. Near Allensville, a man was stuck in his truck with water entering the truck. Fire and rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene. The county road department shut down several roads, mostly in and near the communities of Allensville, Herman, and Fairview. The Kentucky mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton measured 2.81 inches on May 11th.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Allensville	$20,000	The roof was blown off a barn along Highway 848 near Hadensville. Numerous trees were blown down near the community of Allensville. The combination of wind and hail destroyed fifteen acres of a tobacco field and damaged seven more acres. There were very small isolated spots of flattened corn.
January 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Allensville	$3,000	Many large tree branches were broken. A few trees were snapped. The tornado occurred in rural farm country, and no structures were damaged in the Todd County portion of the path. Peak winds in Todd County were estimated near 75 mph. The tornado exited into Logan County about a mile southeast of Allensville.
May 2018	Hail	Allensville	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in rural country west of Allensville.

Every storm recorded in Todd 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

4 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
Guthrie Historic District	7.1 miles	2011
W. L. Reeves House	7.5 miles	1984
Edwards Hall	7.6 miles	1974
McReynolds House	7.9 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002611 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Todd County	All 14 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.