Louisville-Nashville Turnpike Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Louisville and Nashville Turnpike was a toll road that ran from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee during the 19th century. From Louisville, one route now designated US 31W ran through Elizabethtown, Munfordville, Glasgow Junction, Bowling Green, and Franklin before crossing into Tennessee.”
Wikipedia article Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listed as. Louisville--Nashville Turnpike Segment - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N boundary of Ft. Knox at the foot of Muldraugh Hill and continuing S for 3 mi., Ft. Knox, 40121
When was it listed? July 1996
Category. structure
Census division. Fort Knox
National Register reference number. 96000790 - 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Louisville-Nashville Turnpike Segment between 1999 and 2016, burning about 462 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	7
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
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	LILY
10 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KNOB CREEK
23 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	144 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FORT DUFFIELD FIRE
21 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KNOB CREEK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Fort Duffield	2.8 miles	1994
West Point Hotel	3.0 miles	1988
West Point Historic District	3.1 miles	1996
Kentucky and Indiana Bank	3.1 miles	1988
Applegate-Fisher House	3.2 miles	1988
Ditto-Prewitt House	3.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000790 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.