Marene Duvall House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Duvall, Marene, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Simpsonville--Buck Creek Rd. at Bullskin Creek, Finchville, 40065
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Simpsonville
National Register reference number. 88002905 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Marene Duvall House in 2005, burning about 10 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

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
8 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finchville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	$30,000	no account filed
March 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Finchville	$25,000	This tornado touched down 1.6 miles east-southeast of Finchville just north of the end of Duvall Lane. It then traveled north-northeast and produced a track of just over 2 miles over mainly plowed field and strips of forest. Two barns were destroyed. Two other barns has much of their roofs removed. In one case, portions of the roof were strewn downwind across a field and became lodged within a grove of trees. More than two dozen trees were snapped or uprooted. It lifted 1 mile south of the intersection of Taylorsville Road and Interstate 64.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	$20,000	Two houses damaged by trees. A barn lost part of a roof. All damage occurred from one mile North of Finchville to Logan State Road. Report from Shelby County Department of Emergency Service and HAM Radio spotter.
August 2021	Lightning	Finchville	$10,000	There was a structure fire caused by a lightning strike. Cost of damage is unknown.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	$10,000	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	-	Trees fell down.
July 2023	Hail	Finchville	-	Quarter sized hail was observed near Finchville.
June 2015	Hail	Finchville	-	A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report to the NWS of nickel size hail.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	-	The Shelby County emergency manager reported that several trees fell down in the Finchville area.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Finchville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Finchville	-	no account filed
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Finchville	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Finchville	-	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
Money Farm	0.4 miles	1988
Radcliffe-Duvall Farm	1.0 miles	1988
Logan House	1.0 miles	1988
Knight-Stout House	1.5 miles	1975
Wright House	2.2 miles	1988
Shelby Academy	2.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002905 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.