Monterey Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Monterey Historic District in Monterey, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Monterey Historic District (Monterey, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Owen County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by US 127, High, Hillcrest, and Taylor Sts., Monterey, 40359
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. district
Census division. Monterey-New Columbus
National Register reference number. 97000867 - 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monterey Historic District between 1998 and 2016, burning about 24 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 May 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GREENUP RD
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHADY LN

Every fire recorded in Owen County

Storms near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monterey, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$5,000	Numerous trees and limbs were downed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$5,000	Trees downed.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$4,000	Multiple trees were reported knocked down along Highway 355 from Gratz to Monterey.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$4,000	Trees were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down along Kentucky Route 355.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$3,000	A few trees were knocked down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$3,000	A few trees were downed.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Monterey	$2,000	Trees were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Hail	Monterey	$1,000	no account filed
January 2002	Flash Flood	Monterey	-	Several roads were flooded with swift moving water in and around town.
December 2023	Hail	Monterey	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Monterey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Monterey Grade School	0.6 miles	1997
Byrns Landing	0.7 miles	1997
Old Cedar Baptist Church	2.2 miles	1997
Enos Hardin Farm	3.1 miles	1997
Mason Brown House	3.8 miles	1998
Ford House	7.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000867 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Owen County	All 17 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.