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Union Monument in Perryville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Union Monument in Perryville is an historic monument located by the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, in the vicinity of Perryville, Kentucky, in Boyle County, Kentucky. It was built in 1928, sixty-six years after the Battle of Perryville, the bloodiest battle in Kentucky history, on October 8, 1862.”

Wikipedia article Union Monument in Perryville, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1997 · category: Object.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. 2.5 mi. NW of Perryville, Perryville, 40468
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. object
  • Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
  • Census division. Perryville
  • National Register reference number. 97000723 - 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Union Monument in Perryville between 1999 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 October 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEEP CREEK

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this property

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flash 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPerryville$25,000Local media reported several trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2010Flash FloodPerryville$25,000There were numerous reports of flooded and closed roads countywide. Five homes were evacuated due to rising water in a subdivision of Perryville.
May 2009Flash FloodPerryville$20,000Many roads in Perryville are impassable.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPerryville-There were trees down on the 4500 block of Webster Road.
July 2021Flash FloodPerryville-Water was over the roadway at Harrodsburg Road and Claunch Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A tree was down on North Bragg Street at First Street.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A tree fell down and was covering the road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A tree was uprooted and covering US 68.
June 2020Flash FloodPerryville-Smith Street was closed and impassable between first and third streets due to high water.
June 2020Flash FloodPerryville-Mitchellsburg Road was impassable due to flooding.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Several trees were reported down in Perryville.
June 2018Flash FloodPerryville-The Boyle County Emergency Manager reported streets flooded along the Chaplin River in Perryville.
May 2018Flash FloodPerryville-Chaplin River was out of its banks and flowing over roadways in Perryville.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A law enforcement official trees down across the area.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A tree was downed across Battlefield Road.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Several large trees were blown down on Battlefield Rd. in Perryville Battlefield State Park. Some of the trees were up to 22 inches in diameter.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated at 60 mph as well as pea sized hail.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A few trees were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Several trees down.
March 2003HailPerryville-no account filed
March 2003HailPerryville-no account filed
March 2002HailPerryville-no account filed
May 2002HailPerryville-no account filed
May 2002HailPerryville-no account filed
August 1999HailPerryville-no account filed
June 1997HailPerryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Confederate Monument in Perryvilleunder 500 feet1997
Perryville Battlefield0.2 miles1966
Hankla-Walker House0.6 miles1998
H. P. Bottom House0.7 miles1976
Crawford House1.9 miles1976
Johnson-Brinton House2.0 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000723 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyle CountyAll 99 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.