Griggs House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1989 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Waco, Waco, 40475
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Madison County MRA
Census division. Richmond
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 88003316 - 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Griggs House in 2008, burning about 5 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
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
13 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waco, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2018	Lightning	Waco	$100,000	There was a structure fire caused by a lightning strike on Waco Loop.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Waco	$15,000	One road was closed and several homes had water in basements.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	Kentucky Mesonet station ELST, 8 miles east of Richmond, measured a 57 knot wind gust.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	Trees were reported down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	The fire department reported multiple trees downed along Highway 52 several miles east of Richmond.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	The Kentucky Mesonet measured a 63 mph wind gust 8 miles east of Richmond.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	A Kentucky Mesonet site measured a 61 mph wind gust.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	The Waco fire department reported estimated winds of 60 mph.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Waco	-	Rainfall of 4.7 inches was measured at the Waco Fire Station between 230 pm and 430 pm.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Waco	-	A creek was out of its banks on Tipton Road. Water was in the backyards of residences and two to three feet high over a small bridge making the road impassable.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2004	Hail	Waco	-	Fifty to sixty mph winds were also reported.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1995	Hail	Waco	-	Dime-size hail reported about 10 miles East of Richmond.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Waco	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Waco	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Waco	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Waco	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Kellogg and Company Warehouse	1.4 miles	2017
Madison County Courthouse	1.5 miles	1975
William Holloway House	1.8 miles	1983
Richmond Cemetery	1.9 miles	1983
Richmond Armory	2.0 miles	2000
Squire Turner House	2.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003316 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 75 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.