Bird's Nest

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Bird's Nest is a historic residence built c.1850 in Shelby County, Kentucky, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Cropper, Kentucky. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988.”
Wikipedia article Bird's Nest (Shelby County, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 43, 3 mi. S of Cropper, Cropper, 40065
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Christianburg
When was it built? 1850
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002859 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bird's Nest between 1999 and 2004, burning about 29 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 August 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
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

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cropper, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged the fire station in Bagdad. Trees and power lines were downed between Bagdad and Cropper.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	$10,000	The county emergency manager reported several power poles down on Pleasureville Road.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	$10,000	A large tree fell on a car on Ellis Rd. just south of the Henry county line. Several other trees were downed in the same location.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Cropper	-	Water was flowing over Eminence Pike near Drane Lane.
May 2022	Hail	Cropper	-	Golf ball-sized hail was observed in the Cropper community in northern Shelby County. Hail caused minor damage to vehicles.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	-	A 55 knot gust was recorded at the Kentucky Mesonet site in northern Shelby County.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	-	The mesonet measured a 51 knot wind gust.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	-	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cropper	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Cropper	-	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
Bird Octagonal Mule Barn	0.5 miles	1988
Thomas House	1.0 miles	1988
John C. Brown House	1.1 miles	1988
White House	1.2 miles	1988
Snook House	1.6 miles	1988
William J. Thomas House	1.7 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002859 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.