BlockFrom the record
One of 44 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 1999 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walnut Groves Farm (Boundary Increase I)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- Address. 801 Taylorsville Rd., Bloomfield, 40008
- When was it listed? May 1999
- Category. district
- Census division. Bloomfield
- National Register reference number. 99000521 - 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.
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 Walnut Groves Farm (Boundary Increase I): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer County Stone, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust near Bloomfield. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Bloomfield | - | A water rescue occurred on Springfield Road in Bloomfield. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Dispatch reported that a couple of trees were down on the 800 block of Taylorsville Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Public reported a tree down in the area. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Several trees and limbs were reported down in the northeastern part of the county. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Trees were reported to have blown down in the area. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | The public reported trees uprooted due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Local law enforcement reported downed trees blocking the road near the intersection of Highway 62 and Highway 55. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Bloomfield | - | Law enforcement reported that parts of Highway 62 south of Bloomfield became impassable due to flash flooding and was briefly closed. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | The public reported penny size hail near Bloomfield. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Bloomfield | - | A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that high water was flowing over KY 55. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Broadcast media reported estimated gusts of 60 mph. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | The Nelson county highway dept. reported trees down around Bloomfield on Highways 162 and 62. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Groves Farm | 0.6 miles | 1980 | |
| Henry Duncan House | 0.9 miles | 1990 | |
| Bloomfield Historic District | 1.3 miles | 1991 | |
| John Stone House | 2.0 miles | 1984 | |
| Coombs-Duncan-Brown Farmhouse | 2.0 miles | 2010 | |
 | Newell B. McClaskey House | 3.0 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000521 in Record Group 79. |
| Nelson County | All 44 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.
- 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.