BlockFrom the record
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Ballard County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dr. David Polk Juett Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- Listed as. Juett, Dr. David Polk, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Blandville-Hinkleville Rd., Blandville, 42087
- When was it listed? August 1998
- Category. district
- Also known as. Caught in the Middle: The Civil War on the Lower Ohio River MPS
- Census division. Wickliffe
- National Register reference number. 98000936 - 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
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dr. David Polk Juett Farmstead between 1998 and 2015, burning about 172 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROSS CROSSING |
| 7 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dr. David Polk Juett Farmstead: 1 prospect. None of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stovall Creek Clay | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blandville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Blandville | $15,000 | Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph. Large sections of trees were snapped. A mobile home was moved off its foundation. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blandville | $10,000 | Just southwest of Blandville, two trees were snapped. A large tree fell through a home near Slater. |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Blandville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blandville | $5,000 | Large tree limbs were down, and a large tree was uprooted. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blandville | $4,000 | A couple of trees were blown down in the county. One of the trees was 18 inches in diameter ten miles south of La Center. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blandville | $4,000 | Large trees were down, closing Route 286. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blandville | $2,000 | A tree fell on a house between Wickliffe and Blandville. |
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Blandville | - | Flooding was observed along Bethlehem Church Road. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Blandville | - | no account filed |
| March 2018 | Hail | Blandville | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Andrew Lovelace Jr. House | 6.6 miles | 1978 |
| Ballard County Courthouse | 7.4 miles | 1980 | |
| Trimble House | 7.4 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000936 in Record Group 79. |
| Ballard County | All 5 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.