Clifton

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 4801 Greenhaven Ln., Goshen, 40026
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. district
Census division. La Grange
National Register reference number. 97000874 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clifton in 2000, burning about 25 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	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
15 March 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Storms near this property

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$100,000	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$50,000	A NWS Storm Survey concluded that straight line winds resulted in numerous trees were snapped over a fairly wide area, though the swath of damage was riddled with many trees that withstood the wind. The most concentrated damage was along Buckhorn Lane where a row of trees lining the road were blown down. Another concentrated area was at the end of Secretariat Drive, next to a wide-open field where several trees fell around a property. One tree fell into a garage door, causing both a branch to poke through the 2nd floor siding into the house and damaging the back side of a car.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$50,000	Power poles were broken, reported by mPing.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$25,000	A large tree was blown onto the roof of a home, exposing the attic.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$8,000	A tree fell on a house on Narmony Landing Road. The occupants were trapped inside.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$1,000	Several trees were blown down. There was also minor unspecified property damage reported.
March 2025	Hail	Goshen	-	Up to two inch diameter hail was observed in Goshen.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Multiple trees, powerlines, and a utility pole were downed around Goshen Lane, likely from a microburst.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	A few trees were uprooted by strong winds and a street light was brought down along Club Drive.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Strong winds led to broken large tree branches and an uprooted tree in Goshen near Kentucky Route 1793.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Trees and power lines came down in the storm.
May 2019	Hail	Goshen	-	Broadcast media reported that 1 inch hail fell near Goshen.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	The public reported several large trees down at a residence.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Multiple trees were downed in the Goshen area.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	A trained spotter reported a large maple tree down in Goshen with estimated winds 60 to 70 mph.
June 2015	Hail	Goshen	-	An off-duty NWS employee reported hail 3/4 inch in diameter.
June 2015	Hail	Goshen	-	A report of 3/4 inch hail was reported to the NWS by the public.
June 2015	Hail	Goshen	-	An off-duty NWS employee reported 1 inch diameter hail.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	A law enforcement official reported trees down along Highway 42.
July 2012	Hail	Goshen	-	A spotter reported 1 inch hail in Goshen.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Several trees fell in the Prospect and Goshen areas.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Numerous trees were blown down. A funnel cloud was also reported.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Goshen	-	A trained spotter reported 2.55 inches of rain fell on 4/22 and 2.34 inches had fallen by report time on 4/23.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Fire/rescue estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	Numerous roads were flooded and not passable.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Numerous trees were downed.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Trees were blown down across Highway 42. 1.00 inch hail also fell.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Power lines blown down. Boaters had to be rescued on the Ohio River. Report from Oldham County Dispatch.
May 2004	Hail	Goshen	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Goshen	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Goshen	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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
William Woolfolk House	2.5 miles	1987
Wildwood Farm	3.0 miles	2006
Ashbourne Farms	3.2 miles	2008
Reuben Sale House	3.3 miles	1982
William Ingram House	4.4 miles	1983
Hermitage, The	4.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000874 in Record Group 79.
Oldham County	All 48 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.