BlockFrom the record
One of 69 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tatham Springs
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. N of Willisburg on Hwy. 1796, Willisburg, 40078
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Washington County MRA
- Census division. Willisburg
- National Register reference number. 88003399 - 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
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tatham Springs between 2001 and 2004, burning about 86 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Storms near this property
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willisburg, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $30,000 | A driver on Lawrenceburg Road noticed a white Ford Explorer that had washed off the road in flood waters. He then noticed an elderly man and woman were still in the vehicle with water up to their necks. Rescuers broke out windows on the vehicle and pulled the couple out just as it filled completely with flood water. Both were unconscious when they were pulled out; the woman was resuscitated at the scene, but her husband never regained consciousness and died later that afternoon after they were both transported to a local hospital. |
| April 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Willisburg | 4 hurt, $70,000 | The tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a tobacco barn. It also did roof, siding, and chimney damage to several homes, and damaged vehicles. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $75,000 | A one-half mile long area of straight-line wind damage was surveyed southwest of Willisburg. The most significant damage was to a sturdy Amish school house that lost part of its roof, and to a nearby home that had lost the vertical supports to its front porch when the roof briefly lifted. Several trees were also downed and minor roof damage occurred to two outbuildings. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $15,000 | The southwest corner of a large, well-constructed barn was blown in, with several roofing panels removed. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Power lines were down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | A tree blew down in Willisburg. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | A state highway department official stated that roads that don't normally flood where flooding across the northern part of the county. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | A road was impassable due to flash flooding. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | Water up to 10 feet deep was flowing over Lawrenceburg Road. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Trained spotters reported trees down in the area. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | The Washington County emergency manager reported trees down in the Willisburg area. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Willisburg | - | The public reported nickel sized hail fell near Willisburg. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | The Washington County road crew reported trees downed near State Highways 142 and 43. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | A trained spotter relayed a HAM radio report that several trees were downed in the Willisburg Area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Several trees down across the county. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Willisburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willisburg Historic District | 3.5 miles | 2014 | |
 | Willisburg Central Bank and Post Office | 3.8 miles | 1989 |
| Long Lick Creek Bridge | 6.1 miles | 1989 | |
| Thomas H. Williams House | 6.5 miles | 1989 | |
| Richard Berry Jr. House | 7.5 miles | 1989 | |
| Stephen Cooke Brown House | 7.6 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003399 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 69 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.