Built in 1903 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Barlow House in Barlow, Kentucky, is a two-story symmetrical Queen Anne-style house built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Barlow House (Barlow, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Ballard County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1903, Queen Anne style.
National Register reference number.91001663- 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 Barlow House
between 1999 and 2012, burning about 81 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
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Barlow, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Part of a metal wall was damaged at a maintenance building. The roof was blown off a storage building at the city hall. Three power poles were snapped, which cut power to the city water plant. There was roof damage to a barn. A large tree fell on a home and two mobile homes. A carport landed up in a tree. There was minor roof damage on two homes and a carport. Several large trees were uprooted and snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. The average path width was 65 yards.
Security lights were ripped off poles. Trailers were overturned. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few houses were struck by falling trees. Many roads were blocked by debris. The damage was mostly from Barlow to the south side of LaCenter, including the Hinkleville area.
Several roads and intersections were blocked by downed trees and power lines. Damage was reported at several locations around the county, including Barlow. Downed power lines started small fires.
Trees were down at several locations in the county. In the city of Barlow, there were several trees down, causing minor damage to some buildings. A vehicle was damaged when a tree fell on it.
Very large hail struck parts of central Ballard County. At Barlow, a photo was taken of a hailstone measuring 3.4 inches in diameter. The hailstone was spiked in appearance. A couple miles south-southeast of La Center, a photo of quarter-size hail was posted on social media.
Up to four inches of water covered low-lying areas in the Barlow city limits. Highway 1367 was flooded near the McCracken County line. A trained spotter in Ingleside measured 5.25 inches in about five hours. In LaCenter, a spotter measured 4.5 inches.
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
2 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.
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.
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