Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Zion Brick Missionary Church is a historic church in Hopkins County, Kentucky near Hanson. It is located on Zion Brick Church Road, formerly Crossroad Chapel Rd., .3 miles (0.48 km) north of its junction with Kentucky Route 138.”
Wikipedia article Zion Brick Missionary Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 30 National Register listings published here for Hopkins County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88002716- 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
14 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Zion Brick Missionary Church
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Debris and open burning
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Zion Brick Missionary Church: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
2 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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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