BlockFrom the record
One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Waddy Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Address. Roughly KY 395/Main St. S of the Southern Railroad tracks, Waddy, 40076
- When was it listed? December 1988
- Category. district
- Also known as. Shelby County MRA
- Census division. Harrisonville
- National Register reference number. 88002921 - 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 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Waddy Historic District between 2009 and 2010, burning about 20 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LEWIS FIRE |
| 16 February 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waddy, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Waddy | $60,000 | The tornado destroyed a large barn. Sheet metal from the barn was thrown over 300 yards, and some metal from the barn was 50 yards to the west. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | $50,000 | A barn was blown down. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds did unspecified structural damage to a home. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Trees down on Hickory Ridge Road between Ditto Road and Kings Highway in Waddy. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Trees were down on Highway 1005 near Bagdad and Highway 395 near Waddy. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Waddy | - | Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Waddy | - | The public reported quarter size hail sized near Waddy. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Trees were blown down. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Power lines were downed. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waddy | - | Ham radio operators report 40 to 50 mph sustained winds with gusts up to 60 mph. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Waddy | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Waddy | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waddy Bank Building | under 500 feet | 1978 | |
| Henri Middleton House | 1.6 miles | 1988 | |
 | Robertson House | 2.0 miles | 1988 |
| Shelby D. Ware House | 2.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Montgomery House | 2.4 miles | 1988 | |
| Hedden House | 2.6 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88002921 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.