BlockFrom 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
Elk Garden
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S of Kirksville off KY 595, Kirksville, 40475
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Madison County MRA
- Census division. Kirksville
- National Register reference number. 88003326 - 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
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Elk Garden between 1997 and 2009, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1999 | Natural | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 March 2007 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 February 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elk Garden: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony Church Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Price Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirksville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 15 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Tornado (EF3) | Kirksville | 2 killed, 15 hurt | The tornado first touched down in the Nina Ridge Road area three miles ESE of McCreary in Garrard County. The tornado caused EF-1 damage at this location before strengthening to EF-2 just before entering Madison County. ||Near the intersection of Highways 1295 and 52 in Madison County, the tornado reached EF-3 intensity. Near this intersection, two adults were killed when the mobile home they were in was picked up and thrown by the tornado. The bodies were recovered from a nearby pond. Five other occupants of the mobile home, including three children, were injured. A female relative in a brick home just yards away from the mobile home received only minor injuries despite being pinned under a collapsed wall in the house. ||The tornado weakened and lifted at times as it continued east across the county, but still caused significant damage. It tore much of the roof off a fire station on the south side of Richmond before moving over the Bluegrass Army Depot toward the community of Waco in the eastern part of the county. After doing extensive damage to mainly roofs in a subdivision of brick homes near Waco, the tornado destroyed a mobile home in the area, carrying two teenage male occupants of the home through the air before dropping them near an elementary school 300 yards away. The teens miraculously received only minor injuries. The tornado weakened significantly from this point on, doing only minor roof damage and downing trees as it continued eastward before lifting near the end of Drowning Creek Road. ||The tornado was up to 150 yards wide with maximum estimated wind speeds up to 140 mph. Approximately 150 homes received damage, the most severe being several brick homes where only interior walls remained standing in the wake of the tornado. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirksville | $75,000 | The Madison County emergency manager reported several barns were flattened due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirksville | $2,000 | A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report of trees down and a roof ripped off a barn. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Kirksville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell House | 1.0 miles | 1989 | |
| Morrison House | 1.3 miles | 1989 | |
 | Kirksville Christian Church | 1.5 miles | 1989 |
 | Farmers Bank of Kirksville | 1.7 miles | 1990 |
| Stephenson House | 3.0 miles | 1989 | |
| Simmons House | 3.1 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003326 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.
- 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.