Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville is a historic statue created in the Jim Crow era and located on the Jessamine County courthouse lawn in Nicholasville, Kentucky, ten miles south of Lexington, Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1896.
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Nicholasville
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number.97000686- 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
1 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville
in 2014, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville: 1 producer, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Nicholasville, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 37 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
The National Weather Service in Louisville found a tornado occurred on Sunday October 19th in west Nicholasville at the RJ Corman Group complex near Highway 27. The tornado is believed to have started off as a cold air funnel that was able to briefly get down to the surface. The tornado touched down at Big Tunnel Road near Jessamine Creek with uprooted trees and large branch damage. From the damage, there was a convergent signature that is consistent with a tornadic circulation. The tornado moved across a field and more tree damage was observed near RJ Corman Drive. The tornado then hit an RJ Corman warehouse where two garage doors were blown out and a portion of the warehouse wall was pulled away from the building. Security camera footage confirms that a very small funnel caused the damage to the building. Pieces of insulation, wood planks, and metal from the walls of the building were lifted to the rooftop. On the roof of the building, three HVAC units were displaced from their locations. The maximum sustained winds were 90 mph at the metal building. The tornado continued across a paved lot and ended shortly after RJ Corman Drive to the west of US Highway 27 for a total distance of 0.65 miles.
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.
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.
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.
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