Irvington Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Irvington Historic District in Irvington, Kentucky is a 12.6 acres (5.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Irvington Historic District (Irvington, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Breckinridge County · listed in 1998 · 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 CSX tracks, Third, Caroline and Walnut Sts., Irvington, 40146
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. district
Census division. Irvington
National Register reference number. 97001342 - 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

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Irvington Historic District between 1998 and 2017, burning about 172 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	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvington, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2006	Flash Flood	Irvington	1 killed, $10,000	Fast flowing waters swept a car off Dents Bridge Road into Sinking Creek near Irvington. Two adults escaped from the car, but were unable to rescue a child strapped in a car seat before the car was swept away.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	$30,000	Local broadcast media reported that severe thunderstorm winds brought down utility poles and power lines on Highway 79 just north of Irvington.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	$30,000	Several trees fell across cars in Irvington.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	$25,000	A tree was blown on to a mobile home.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	$20,000	Local broadcast media reported power lines down across KY 79.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	Power outages were reported in Irvington.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	Trees and power lines were downed in Irvington.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	A report arrived via amateur radio that trees and power lines were down across the county.
December 2013	Flash Flood	Irvington	-	A spotter reported via HAM radio that KY HWY 60 was under water near the Dollar Store in Irvington.
April 2013	Hail	Irvington	-	Ping pong sized hail fell in Irvington.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Irvington	-	Five to six inches of water were over a road in the town of Irvington. Two inches of water were standing on other roads.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	Winds in excess of 60 mph reported by HAM radio operator.
March 2025	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Irvington	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Irvington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Breckinridge County	All 7 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.