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Photograph of St. Augustine Catholic Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Augustine Catholic Church

Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Augustine Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church near Clarkson, Kentucky, in the Eastern Deanery of the Diocese of Owensboro. It is noted for its historic parish church at 30 St Augustine Church Road in Grayson Springs.”

Wikipedia article St. Augustine Catholic Church (Grayson Springs, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Grayson County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1854.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. KY 88, Grayson Springs, 42726
  • When was it listed? April 1989
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Leitchfield
  • When was it built? 1854
  • National Register reference number. 89000259 - 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of St. Augustine Catholic Church between 1999 and 2018, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTAYLOR FORK
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL HOLLOW
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS
14 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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 St. Augustine Catholic Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ragland Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grayson 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grayson Springs0.7 miles1978
Cedars, The2.1 miles1976
Jack Thomas House3.9 miles1976
Court Square Historic District4.0 miles1984
Court Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)4.0 miles1988
Hunter House4.0 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grayson CountyAll 8 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.