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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
Shelby D. Ware 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. Ware, Shelby D., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. KY 714, .5 mi. S of Hemp Ridge, Hemp Ridge, 40076
- When was it listed? December 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Shelby County MRA
- Census division. Harrisonville
- National Register reference number. 88002950 - 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 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shelby D. Ware House between 2005 and 2010, burning about 23 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 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemp Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hemp Ridge | - | A tree fell near Hempridge Church Road. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Hemp Ridge | - | The National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed an EF-1 tornado in Eastern Shelby County. The tornado touched down just west of 2402 Highway 714, twisting a bunch of cedar trees, and then crossing 714 doing extensive tree damage. Trees were twisted, snapped, uprooted, and facing from north through southeasterly directions. The tornado uprooted and snapped dozens of trees on Bob Jeff Road, destroying one barn, just north of I-64. Large sections of the 30 by 20 solid barn were thrown 60 yards and several 2 X 4 boards were impaled in the ground. Strangely enough, a large chicken coop next to the barn which was on blocks was not moved at all. The survey crew was a bit perplexed when they located a large dismantled barn on Wolf Run. Parts of the barn were thrown 250 yards downwind. There were straight line winds in between 659 Bob Jeff Road and the barn on the southside of I-64 on Wolf Run Road. Based on radar, there was at least 2 small funnels from the same larger circulation, and for a brief time, two of them touched down, each about 100 yards wide. However, they were part of the same mesovortex with max wind of 90 mph. Another interesting thing about the solid barn on Wolf Run Road, is that a hoop barn, and an older barn, both of which were on both sides of the dismantled barn, had only minor damage. In fact, the long narrow hoop barn, only 10 yards away, was left unscathed. Along Buzzard Roost Road, just east of the Shelby Knobs. An older barn`s metal sheeting, and sections of the roof were thrown up to 300 yards east northeast. Maximum wind speeds in this area were 80 mph. A 15 by 10 foot storage outbuilding was picked up and debris thrown up to 300 yards. A large oak tree was uprooted and leaning on top of a well built house. Numerous pine and cedar trees were snapped and twisted. Several other barns had significant roof and side panel damage. Wind speeds in this area were 90 mph. The tornado straddled Highway 60, and did significant telephone pole damage and tree damage all along Highway 60. Poles were twisted and snapped over a 1 mile area. Wind speeds in this area were 90 mph. The last tornado damage point was along Highway 395 in Peytona. A couple of barns had minor roof damage and a couple of trees were snapped. Winds were estimated to be 75 mph at this location. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire Farm | 1.2 miles | 1988 | |
 | Robertson House | 1.4 miles | 1988 |
| C. E. Frye Farm | 1.6 miles | 1988 | |
| Waddy Historic District | 2.2 miles | 1988 | |
| Waddy Bank Building | 2.3 miles | 1978 | |
| Montgomery House | 2.3 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88002950 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.