Big Sink Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Big Sink Rural Historic District, in Woodford County, Kentucky near Versailles, Kentucky, is a 5,000 acres (20 km2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included Number of 180 contributing buildings, 33 contributing structures, and 44 contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Big Sink Rural Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Woodford County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W of Midway off I-64, Midway, 40347
When was it listed? January 1994
Category. district
Also known as. Northwest Woodford County MPS
Census division. Versailles
National Register reference number. 93001523 - 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.

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 Big Sink Rural Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Queen City Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$50,000	Trees down, many houses damaged with one or two roofs blown off reported by Woodford County police.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Large trees snapped and were uprooted in the Midway cemetery.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	A tree was blocking Georgetown Road and Mckinney Avenue.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were reported down in Midway.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Multiple trees were reported down in different areas of Midway.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	The county emergency manager reported that many trees were downed in Woodford County, with a concentration along Old Frankfort Pike and Midway Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	The Woodford County Emergency Manager reported several trees blocking State Highway 62 near Midway. Power was out to much of Midway.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Two trees were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were down, one was blocking a road. Report from Woodford County Dispatch.
March 2012	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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
Alexander Plantation House	1.3 miles	1983
Lee's Tavern	1.6 miles	1977
Nugent's Crossroad Historic District	1.6 miles	1994
Wallace Station Historic District	1.9 miles	1994
Edward M. Blackburn House	2.0 miles	1985
Benjamin Wilson House	2.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodford County	All 80 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.
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.
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.