BlockFrom the record
One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Sands
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Address. Off I-65 SW of Lebanon Junction, above the CSX RR trestle over Sulfur Fork, Lebanon Junction, 42701
- When was it listed? November 1994
- Category. district
- Census division. Elizabethtown
- National Register reference number. 94001379 - 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
22 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fort Sands between 1999 and 2017, burning about 115 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Sands: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 Fort Knox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sandstone Roadcut | Silica | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Bush House | 2.5 miles | 1988 |
 | Stephen Rawlings House | 4.4 miles | 1988 |
 | William Wilson House | 4.5 miles | 1988 |
| Lincoln Heritage House | 4.5 miles | 1973 | |
| Montgomery Avenue Historic District | 4.7 miles | 1988 | |
 | W. T. Kerrick House | 4.7 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94001379 in Record Group 79. |
| Hardin County | All 89 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.