Salem Baptist Church

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 44/53, .5 mi. S of Southville, Southville, 40065
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Harrisonville
National Register reference number. 88002953 - 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Salem Baptist Church between 2003 and 2009, burning about 41 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
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
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
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

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this property

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 2 tornado, 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
April 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Southville	-	A narrow tornado touched down along Tatum Road in Central Shelby County, Wednesday evening. The tornado topped some trees initially, and then picked up a dog house and uprooting some cedar and maple trees. There was shingle damage to a small home, and residents heard intense wind and felt a strong pressure change. Wind speeds in this area where 80 mph, and 50 yards wide.\|\|The tornado caused the most significant damage to a large older barn, removing and twisting a lot of metal sheeting and roof panels. Another 15 by 10 foot metal outbuilding had its roof removed. Drone video show the debris pattern twisting up into the trees up to 150 yards to the east northeast.\|\|The rope tornado quickly lifted in a grove of trees just east of the metal outbuilding along Tatum Road.
April 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Southville	-	The National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed an EF-1 tornado in South Central Shelby County. The tornado touched down along Rockbridge Road, about 3 miles east southeast of Interstate 64 at exit 35. Three barns had significant roof and panel damage. The wood debris from the barns impaled the ground, and insulation and metal sheeting went up into the trees and twisted. Trees were facing from a northerly direction, to an east southeasterly direction. This is consistent with a tornado of 90 mph strength.\|\|Drone footage showed several different types of trees twisted and sheared off at the very top. The tornado lifted just past the third barn approximately 200 yards eastward in a grove of trees. Residents of the two homes affected heard a distinct roaring sound, and strong pressure around the sinuses and ears.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Southville	-	The 4500 block of Rockbridge Road had to be closed due to flash flooding.

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
Carriss's Store	0.4 miles	1988
Carriss's Feed Store	0.4 miles	1988
Dr. William Morris Office and House	0.5 miles	1988
Froman Fry Farm	1.3 miles	1988
Pugh House	1.4 miles	1988
Payne House	1.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002953 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.