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Photograph of Haldeman Voting House No. 8
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Haldeman Voting House No. 8

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Haldeman Voting House No. 8, on Kentucky Route 174 near Morehead, Kentucky, was built in 1935. The voting house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”

Wikipedia article Haldeman Voting House No. 8, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Rowan County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1935.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. KY 174, Morehead, 40351
  • When was it listed? April 1998
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Kentucky WPA Stone Voting Houses in Rowan County MPS
  • Census division. Morehead
  • When was it built? 1935
  • National Register reference number. 98000342 - 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Haldeman Voting House No. 8 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,628 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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
Debris and open burning55
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony24
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestNATURAL LIGHT
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBIG PERRY
17 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution47 acresDaniel Boone National ForestUS 60
26 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDAVIS LANE
9 May 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHALE ROAD
4 May 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUCE HOLLOW

Every fire recorded in Rowan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Haldeman Voting House No. 8: 8 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cogswell-Fultz MineClayPast Producer
Dry Branch Strip MineClayPast Producer
Ford Burchett Clay MineClayPast Producer
Ford Burchett MineClayProducer
Patties Lick Strip MineClayUnknown
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 1ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 2ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 3ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 4ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 5ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rowan County

Storms near this property

60 of 95 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morehead, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 15 flash flood, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018FloodMorehead1 killed, $200,000Several vehicles were submerged in water in Morehead, including police cruisers. Several roads were closed due to water covering them from overflowing creeks and streams. Additionally, a nine year old boy was swept into a culvert by flood waters near Morehead. His body was found a week later in the Triplett Creek area.
March 1997Flash FloodMorehead$350,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorehead$50,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Morehead.
August 2003Flash FloodMorehead$50,000Numerous homes were inundated with water in Coppers Hollow and a nearby road was impassable due to high water.
June 1996Flash FloodMorehead$50,000no account filed
May 2020Flash FloodMorehead$25,000Rowan County Dispatch reported numerous instances of flash flooding south of Morehead. This includes near the Lockegee Rock area where a tree was downed due to flowing water. This caused a vehicle to become trapped by water prior to all occupants being rescued. Additionally, a tree downed by flowing water fell onto power lines, subsequently leading to an apartment fire closer to Morehead.
June 2004Flash FloodMorehead$20,000Tripplett Creek was flowing into several houses. Kentucky Highway 519 was closed due to high water about six miles south of Morehead.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindMorehead$15,000Extensive damage occurred to trees and residential structures 1 mile west of Morehead due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMorehead$15,000Numerous trees were blown down on Highway 377.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorehead$15,000Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. One tree fell onto a home and another onto a powerline.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMorehead$15,000Strong winds flipped over a recreational vehicle and moved a building off of its foundation.
July 2000Flash FloodMorehead$10,000Flash flooding washed out road at Nickel's Branch. Residents of two trailers evacuated by rescue squad, no injuries reported. First floor of city office building flooded.
March 1997Flash FloodMorehead$10,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMorehead$8,000An 18 to 24 inch diameter red oak was snapped off and lying on some fiber optic line, causing a telephone pole to break.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMorehead$8,000Downed power lines were reported.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMorehead$8,000Downed power lines were reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMorehead$6,000Trees were blown down and onto Nichols Branch and Riddle Fork Roads in the Dry Creek community.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMorehead$5,000Power lines were blown down in Morehead.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMorehead$5,000Large 10000 to 12000 cinder block wall blown over at a Wal Mart construction site.
November 2007Thunderstorm WindMorehead$5,000A few trees were blown down in the southern half of the county.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMorehead$5,000Trees and power lines were down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMorehead$4,000Trees and power poles down across northern part of county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMorehead$3,000Trees were blown down on Clack Mountain Road near Morehead.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMorehead$3,000A utility pole was blown down along Buffalo Branch Rd 7 miles northeast of Morehead.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMorehead$3,000Trees and power lines down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMorehead$3,000Power lines downed.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMorehead$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported to have been blown down at the intersection of Brown Street and Pettit Avenue in Morehead.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMorehead$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported to have been blown down at residence on Old Flemingsburg Rd in the city of Morehead. This residence sits opposite of Pinnacle Way.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMorehead$2,000Two trees were blown down on Lower Craney Road by wind gusts estimated at 61 mph.
April 2006LightningMorehead$2,000Tree hit by lightning on Circle Drive exploded and burnt transformer.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMorehead$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew power lines down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000Rowan County dispatch reported a tree down on internet cables at the intersection of Knapp Avenue and Cecil Drive in Morehead.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000The Rowan County dispatch reported trees blown down onto North Wilson Avenue due to a strong thunderstorm gust front.
April 2015Flash FloodMorehead$1,000Multiple roads around the county were impassable including Open Fork, Dry Creek, and Big Perry.
August 2015Flash FloodMorehead$1,000Water of unknown depth was observed flowing across Hwy 60 in Morehead.
July 2015Flash FloodMorehead$1,000East Main Street near Morehead was impassable due to flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000A 51 mph wind gust was measured at the Rowan county mesonet site.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000A 56 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Morehead Airport AWOS.
August 2013Flash FloodMorehead$1,000Some roads within Morehead city limits were flooded.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000One tree was blown down on Riddle Lane by wind gusts estimated at 61 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMorehead$1,000Power line down on University Drive.
May 2025HailMorehead-Rowan County dispatch reported up to golfball-sized hail in the city of Morehead.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindMorehead-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Robin Hood Drive and Knapp Avenue.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMorehead-A tree was blown down and onto Old Flemingsburg Road in Morehead.
May 2018Flash FloodMorehead-Emergency Management observed water flowing over Flemingsburg Road about four miles north of Morehead. Additionally, a local creek in Morehead quickly overspilled its banks, leading to water flowing down a local road.
June 2017Flash FloodMorehead-Dispatch relayed reports of flash flooding throughout the county, including along U.S. Highway 60 in several spots near and around Morehead. Various other roads were closed along Triplett Creek, extending toward Farmers as 2 to 4 inches of rain fell this evening.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMorehead-A large tree was blown down and across a power line at the junction of Jewell Lane and |Skaggs Rd.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Numerous trees were blown down county wide.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Trees and power lines were blown down near the state police post, causing some power outages nearby.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Numerous trees were blown down along Cranston Road west of Morehead.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Multiple large trees were uprooted and power lines were blown down. Some roof damage was also reported in the Morehead area.
March 2013Heavy RainMorehead-Rainfall amount of 1.75 inches was observed between 8 am and 11:54 am EST at the state highway garage near Morehead.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindMorehead-A tree was blown down and across a portion of I-64 near mile marker 135.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Downed trees resulted in power outages across Morehead.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Several trees were blown down, including one that landed on a house.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindMorehead-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph occurred 4 miles west of Morehead.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMorehead-Trees were blown down on Hwy 377.
July 2011Heavy RainMorehead-Between 1.49 and 2.15 inches of rain fell in the Morehead vicinity between 1215 and 115 am. The heavy rain caused ponding of water on Main St and other streets within the city of Morehead.
May 2010FloodMorehead-All lanes of KY 32 at Bratton Branch were blocked by high water. Water had also entered businesses there. KY 32 in downtown Morehead was also impassable along with parts of US 60 both east and west of town.
September 2009Heavy RainMorehead-A volunteer weather observer reported that 1.34 inches of rainfall had fallen since their daily report was sent in at 7:10 am. The storm total rainfall at this location measured 2 inches since midnight the night before.

Every storm recorded in Rowan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rowan CountyAll 14 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.