BlockFrom the record
One of 99 National Register listings published here for Boyle County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. L and N RR grade over Buck Cr., Mitchellsburg, 40422
- When was it listed? April 1998
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Boyle MPS
- Census division. Perryville
- National Register reference number. 98000332 - 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
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert between 1999 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ELK CAVE |
| 16 February 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 January 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SCRUBGRASS |
Storms near this property
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchellsburg, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellsburg | - | There were several trees down near the intersection of Mitchellsburg Road and Harberson Lane. There were also trees down on Bakers Lane, around the 9700 and 10300 block of Lebanon Road, and on Scrubgrass Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellsburg | - | Dispatch reported a tree down along Mitchellsburg Road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellsburg | - | A tree was down on Mitchellsburg Knob Road. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Mitchellsburg | - | Mitchellburg Road was closed due to high water. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchellsburg | - | State officials reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Mitchellsburg | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| James P. Mitchell House and Farmstead | 0.4 miles | 1997 | |
| James Robinson House | 1.1 miles | 1998 | |
| Stone Bridge at Chaplin Creek | 2.3 miles | 1998 | |
| Tank Pond Railroad Underpass | 2.3 miles | 1998 | |
| Marshall-Wallace House | 3.0 miles | 2021 | |
| Bower House | 3.2 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000332 in Record Group 79. |
| Boyle County | All 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.