Blaydes House

Built in 1833 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Blaydes House, in Shelby County, Kentucky near Bagdad, Kentucky, was built in 1833. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Blaydes House (Bagdad, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1833, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Blaydes Ln., 1 mi. N of KY 1779, Bagdad, 40003
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Christianburg
When was it built? 1833
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 88002852 - 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Blaydes House between 1999 and 2014, burning about 52 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LEWIS FIRE
10 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COW PIE
27 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bagdad, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	-	A tree was reported down on Christiansburg Road on the east side of the county.
April 2015	Hail	Bagdad	-	A social media picture from Bagdad showed quarter sized hail.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	-	Downed trees took down power lines on Bagdad Road.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	-	A few trees were downed.
July 2004	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Chiles-Bailey House	0.6 miles	1988
Building at Jct. of KY 395 and 1779	1.2 miles	1988
William Blades House	1.4 miles	1988
Bland Farm	1.7 miles	1988
Basket Farm	2.1 miles	1988
Graham House	2.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002852 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.