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One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Henri Middleton House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Middleton, Henri, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Old US 60, .75 mi. E of Peytona, Peytona, 40076
- When was it listed? December 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Shelby County MRA
- Census division. Harrisonville
- National Register reference number. 88002847 - 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
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Henri Middleton House between 2001 and 2002, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
7 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peytona, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peytona | $100,000 | Two houses were heavily damaged by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peytona | - | A tree was blown down by strong thunderstorm winds on Bob Rogers Road. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Peytona | - | Quarter sized hail reported near Peytona. |
| November 2022 | Hail | Peytona | - | Quarter sized hail was observed in the Peytona community in eastern Shelby County. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peytona | - | Trees and power lines were down in the Bagdad/Waddy area. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peytona | - | The Shelby County Road Department reported several trees down along 4400 Waddy Road. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peytona | - | Trees were downed. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedden House | 1.0 miles | 1988 | |
| Waddy Historic District | 1.6 miles | 1988 | |
| Waddy Bank Building | 1.6 miles | 1978 | |
| Charles Ware House | 2.7 miles | 1988 | |
| Shelby D. Ware House | 3.5 miles | 1988 | |
 | Robertson House | 3.6 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88002847 in Record Group 79. |
| Shelby County | All 142 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.