BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Auburn Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Address. Roughly, along E. and W. Main, N. Lincoln, Perkins, Pearl, Caldwell, Wilson, Maple and Viers Sts., Auburn, 42206
- When was it listed? March 1994
- Category. district
- Census division. Auburn
- National Register reference number. 94000222 - 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
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Auburn Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 46 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STAMPS FIR |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SSTEVENSON MILL II |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FAMILY VISIT |
| 8 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MONGOMERY ROAD |
Storms near this property
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 | Hail | Auburn | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $30,000 | A grain bin was blown over near Auburn. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | $5,000 | The roof was blown off a building. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Auburn | $50 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Debris from flood waters had to be removed from a roadway in Auburn. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | A tree was blown down by strong winds, blocking West Main Street in Auburn. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Trees were reported down. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Flash flooding was reported along East Main Street in Auburn, Kentucky. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | There were multiple reports of trees down in Auburn. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Local law enforcement reported Highway 103 near Lashley Road near Auburn was impassable due to high water. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Public reported high water flowing over Highway 103 in Logan County. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | The Logan County Road Department reported two trees downed just west of the town of Auburn. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Roof damage was reported. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Auburn | - | Logan county dispatch reported flash flooding had caused problems along Main St. in Auburn. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | A couple of trees were downed in the Auburn area. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | Two trees were downed. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Auburn | - | A tornado touched down briefly along Liberty Church Road in Auburn. The path length and width are estimated. No damage was done, so the intensity is also an estimate. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Auburn | - | Brief tornado touchdown in field along Highway 103 |
| February 2025 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Auburn | - | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | G. W. Davidson House and Bank | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | McCutchen Meadows | 1.8 miles | 1984 |
 | South Union Shakertown Historic District | 3.3 miles | 1975 |
 | South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory | 4.0 miles | 1974 |
| South Union Shakertown Historic District | 4.0 miles | 1975 |
| David Sawyer House | 6.4 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000222 in Record Group 79. |
| Logan County | All 20 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.
- 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.