Old Fort Mitchell Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Saint Johns Rd., Dixie Hwy., E. Maple Ave., and Edgewood Rd., Fort Mitchell, 41011
When was it listed? September 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Fort Mitchell MPS
Census division. Covington
National Register reference number. 89001170 - 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Old Fort Mitchell Historic District in 2010, burning about 25 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
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
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERBOURNE

Every fire recorded in Kenton 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 Old Fort Mitchell Historic District: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Constance Yard	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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
Kruempelman Farmhouse	0.2 miles	1989
Fort Mitchell Heights Historic District	0.5 miles	1989
Beechwood Historic District	0.6 miles	1989
Highland Cemetery Historic District	0.8 miles	1989
Pleasant Run Stone House II	1.2 miles	1987
Pleasant Run Stone House I	1.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001170 in Record Group 79.
Kenton County	All 76 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.