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Photograph of York Street Historic District
Photograph by William R. Benton, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

York Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

“The York Street Historic District in Newport, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1995. Most of the buildings were built in the mid and late Victorian era.”

Wikipedia article York Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. York St. from Seventh St. to Tenth St., Newport, 41071
  • When was it listed? April 2024
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Newport-Fort Thomas
  • National Register reference number. 95000640 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of York Street Historic District: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 3 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Flash FloodNewport$50,000State Route 9 was closed due to a landslide near the Wilder/Newport border.
July 2016Flash FloodNewport$50,000Over 20 homes were flooded, with up to 6 feet of water in more than a dozen of the homes.
July 2013FloodNewport$50,000Several basements of homes on Riddle Place in Newport were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindNewport$20,000Roof and fascia damage occurred to a shopping plaza due to thunderstorm winds.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNewport$20,000Strong winds caused a roof to be blown off a structure.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNewport$10,000A large tree was downed onto a residence.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNewport$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed in the Newport area, including on 4th Avenue, in the 100 block of Covert Run Pike and near the intersection of Waterworks Road and Taylor Avenue.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000Several trees were reported knocked down on cars.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000A large tree fell onto a car on 4th Street in Newport.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000Numerous trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindNewport$4,000Several trees were downed in the Newport area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport$3,000A few trees were downed in Dayton.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindNewport$3,000Several trees and power lines were downed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNewport$2,000Two trees were downed along Isabella Street in Newport, between 7th and 8th Streets.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNewport$2,000Trees were reported down in the Newport area due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindNewport$1,000A tree was reported knocked down in the 800 block of Lincoln Road.
July 2013Flash FloodNewport$1,000Roads were closed from 11th Street and Monmouth Street to 18th Street and Monmouth Street due to heavy rainfall.
July 2010Flash FloodNewport$1,000Roads were impassible due to heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding.
May 2009HailNewport$1,000no account filed
April 2024FloodNewport-High water was reported on Moock Road at Woodland Hills Drive.
July 2019FloodNewport-High water was reported on several streets in Newport.
August 2016Flash FloodNewport-Several streets were flooded by over one foot of water.
April 2014Heavy RainNewport-High water due to poor drainage was reported on Highway 27 in Newport.
August 2003Flash FloodNewport-Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the southern Cincinnati suburbs. Several homes had flooded basements.
May 2018HailNewport-no account filed
September 2018HailNewport-no account filed
June 2005HailNewport-no account filed
June 1995HailNewport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Salem Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonageunder 500 feet1986
Monmouth Street Historic District0.2 miles1996
August Sauer House0.2 miles1997
Buena Vista Historic District0.3 miles2020
East Newport Historic District0.4 miles1983
Newport Courthouse Square Historic District0.4 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000640 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Campbell CountyAll 72 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.