B. C. Calvert House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Calvert House is a historic Late Victorian style house located in Union, Kentucky. It was built in 1875, and on February 6, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article B. C. Calvert 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Calvert, B. C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 10246 Lower River Rd., Union, 41005
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Boone County MRA
Census division. Burlington
National Register reference number. 88003292 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of B. C. Calvert House: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Burlington Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O'Day Excavating & Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
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
Rabbit Hash General Store	0.1 miles	1989
Rabbit Hash Historic District	0.1 miles	2003
East Bend Church	1.6 miles	1989
Stephens, J.Q.A., House	2.3 miles	2005
Piatt's Landing	2.8 miles	1974
Jonas Clore Log House	3.0 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003292 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.
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.