B. M. Allen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Allen House, in Boone County, Kentucky near Union, is a house with Greek Revival and Italianate features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and the listing then included seven contributing buildings on 75 acres (30 ha).”
Wikipedia article B. M. Allen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Allen, B. M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 11301 Riddles Run Rd., Union, 41091
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Boone County MRA
Census division. Walton
National Register reference number. 88003290 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of B. M. Allen 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

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of B. M. Allen House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Patriot Aggregate Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Peter Gregory House	0.9 miles	2000
Hamilton School	1.0 miles	1989
Stephens, J.Q.A., House	1.6 miles	2005
M. Miller House	2.5 miles	1989
B. C. Calvert House	3.1 miles	1989
Rabbit Hash General Store	3.1 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.