Taylor 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 Baldwin, Baldwin, 40475
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Madison County MRA
Census division. Cottonburg-Valley View
National Register reference number. 88003336 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Taylor House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2008	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGHWATER LN
5 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Taylor House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
	Ambrose Fault Vein	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc	Past Producer	Barite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	$40,000	Broadcast media reported numerous trees and farm outbuildings damaged by severe thunderstorm winds in the Baldwin community.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	-	The Madison County emergency manager reported that a tree fell down on a power line on Whitlock Road.

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
Newby Country Store	3.2 miles	2025
Whitehall	4.6 miles	1971
Isaac Newland House	5.4 miles	1983
Bogie Houses and Mill Site	5.5 miles	1976
Stephen Murphy House	5.5 miles	1983
Homelands	5.8 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003336 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.