Willisburg Central Bank and Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 53, Willisburg, 40078
When was it listed? February 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Washington County MRA
Census division. Willisburg
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88003432 - 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.

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Willisburg Historic District	0.4 miles	2014
Tatham Springs	3.8 miles	1989
Stephen Cooke Brown House	4.2 miles	1994
Richard Berry Jr. House	4.6 miles	1989
Beechfork Presbyterian Church	4.7 miles	1989
Thomas H. Williams House	4.8 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003432 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.
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.