Hanson Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Hanson Historic District, in Hanson, Kentucky, is a 2.2 acres (0.89 ha) historic district including 11 contributing buildings which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Hanson Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Hopkins 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. Roughly Main St. from US 41 to E. Railroad St., Hanson, 42431
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Hopkins County MPS
Census division. Hanson
National Register reference number. 88002711 - 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Hanson Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2000	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TREE SWING
7 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this property

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanson, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash 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	Hail	Hanson	$50,000	A swath of large hail occurred in association with a supercell across northeast Hopkins County. A couple miles northeast of Hanson, hailstones up to the size of golf balls produced depressions in freshly plowed farm fields. Cars were dented, and shingles were damaged. The ground was completely covered by hail following the storm. The large hail continued eastward to the Mclean County line.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Hanson	$50,000	Widespread street flooding occurred in Madisonville. Some roads in the city were impassable, including those in a flood-prone area near the mall adjacent to the Pennyrile Parkway. The fire department was dispatched to the mall area to rescue a woman and child in a vehicle. On the north side of Madisonville, U.S. Highway 41 was impassable, with water up to the hood of a car. Another vehicle was stuck in floodwaters in a railroad tunnel in the city. At least one resident in Madisonville requested assistance evacuating a flooded home. North of Madisonville, Highway 1069 was impassable. A nearby secondary road was blocked off, and motorists were stuck between flooded areas. Very high water was over several roads. Water covered several portions of eastbound U.S. Highway 41A, and water was flowing over the road in some spots. In Mortons Gap, one home was flooded, and at least six inches of water flowed across roads in downtown Mortons Gap. Highway 813 was impassable a half-mile from the Pennyrile Parkway. Near the Madisonville airport, Highway 70 was closed due to high water and stranded motorists.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanson	$40,000	An intense thunderstorm moving through northern Hopkins County downed numerous trees near Otter Lake on Otter Lake Loop, Hummingbird Cove, and Falcon Creek, with one tree falling through a home.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanson	$15,000	An equipment storage shed was blown apart.
April 2016	Lightning	Hanson	$10,000	Lightning was the suspected cause of a structure fire.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanson	$7,000	A tree fell on a house in Hanson. A couple of trees were blown down in both Nebo and Mortons Gap.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Hanson	-	About a foot of water was on numerous roadways in the county.
July 2019	Funnel Cloud	Hanson	-	State police and a trained spotter reported a funnel cloud over the Hanson area.
May 2016	Funnel Cloud	Hanson	-	The funnel cloud was observed by a trained spotter looking east from the Hanson exit on Interstate 69.
February 2008	Hail	Hanson	-	Nickel and dime size hail was reported near exit 49 along the Pennyrile Parkway. Quarter-size hail fell at Earlington.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Hanson	-	The weak tornado, with peak winds near 60 MPH, was well-photographed and videotaped. The tornado touched down in the vicinity of Highways 260 and 1069 and lifted as it crossed the Pennyrile Parkway. No damage could be located by witnesses or by National Weather Service personnel who surveyed the area.
May 2023	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
March 2020	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
April 2016	Funnel Cloud	Hanson	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
December 2015	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed
October 2000	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Beckley Jackson House	3.7 miles	1989
Madisonville Tuberculosis Hospital	4.8 miles	2016
North Main Street Historic District	5.3 miles	1988
John Harvey House	5.4 miles	1988
US Post Office-Madisonville	5.5 miles	1989
Dr. Thomas Gardiner House	5.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hopkins County	All 30 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.