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One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Morris Lassing House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Lassing, Morris, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 10515 US 42, Union, 41091
- When was it listed? June 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. Boone County MRA
- Census division. Walton
- National Register reference number. 88003285 - 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
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Morris Lassing House in 2010, burning about 25 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BIG BONE |
Storms near this property
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $7,000 | Multiple trees were reported knocked down. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $3,000 | Large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Union | $3,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $2,000 | A large limb and a tree were knocked down near New Haven School Road. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | A large tree was downed. |
| February 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | One tree was knocked down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | $1,000 | A tree was downed, blocking Richmond Road near State Route 42. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Union | $1,000 | Over six inches of flowing water was reported rushing over Richwood Road. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Union | - | Gunpowder Road was closed due to flooding. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Union | - | High water was reported on Old Union Road. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Union | - | High standing water was reported near Richmond and Hicks Roads. Water was up to a car door in the area. These occurrences were due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Union | - | Basements flooded in town |
| February 2025 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Union | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. M. J. Crouch House | 1.2 miles | 1989 | |
| L. C. Norman House | 1.3 miles | 1989 | |
| Harvey A. Hicks House | 1.4 miles | 1989 | |
| Benjamin Piatt Fowler House | 2.2 miles | 1982 | |
| Thomas Huey Farm | 2.4 miles | 2000 | |
| Blankenbecker-Riley Farm | 2.6 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003285 in Record Group 79. |
| Boone County | All 101 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.