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One of 25 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
DONALD B (towboat)
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1928.
The listing
- National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3106 Old A&P Rd. E, Georgetown, 45121
- When was it listed? 1989-12-20
- Category. structure
- Township. Pleasant township
- National Register reference number. 89002458 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1928 to 1991The ground this property stands on, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of DONALD B (towboat) between 1997 and 2012, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 February 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 241 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 241 specimens collected within 10 miles of DONALD B (towboat) between 1883 and 1974: 213 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, Ahles, H.E., Bell E. W. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Small Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
 | Stictis Pers., 1800 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
| Cercospora circumscissa Sacc. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
 | Cercospora sordida Sacc. | 1899 | King H. B. | Ripley |
 | Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
| Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
| Microsphaera peckii U.Braun | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley | |
 | Microsphaera ravenelii Berk. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
 | Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr. | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
 | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
 | Panus stipticus (Bull.) Fr. | 1903 | Lyon, C. D. | Higginsport |
All 241 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of DONALD B (towboat): 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County Engineer Lms. Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| White Oak Creek Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cedron Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Georgetown Pit Number 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Georgetown Pit Number 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maysville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ruggles Stone Company Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ruggles Stone Company Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant |
Storms near this property
39 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $30,000 | A roof was partially removed from a bowling alley and a house was also damaged due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $20,000 | A barn sustained structural damage along Smokey Row Road. A nearby workshed had its roof peeled off. Several trees were also downed across the area. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $20,000 | Trees were downed and roofs were blown off a house and barn. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Georgetown | $10,000 | Three to four feet of water was reported over Highway 52 between Higginsport and Ripley. Mud was covering the roadway near Free Soil Road. A tree was downed across A and P Road. Fire crews were working to clean up the roadways. This flooding occurred due to persistent heavy rainfall. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $5,000 | Several trees were downed in the Georgetown area. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Georgetown | $5,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding. Also a small culvert collapsed near Pine Valley Drive. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Georgetown | $5,000 | Multiple roads were reported closed across the county due to flash flooding. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down. A roof was ripped off a building at the county fairgrounds and a barn was damaged. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $4,000 | A few power poles were downed. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $4,000 | Several trees were downed along Lakeview Acres Drive. |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $4,000 | Trees and powerlines were knocked down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | A tree was downed onto some wires. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | Several trees downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $3,000 | Numerous trees down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed in the Georgetown area. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $2,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $2,000 | A tree fell onto a house. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $1,000 | A large healthy tree was snapped in half. Siding was also blown off of an out building. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $1,000 | One tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $1,000 | A large limb was reported downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | $250 | Several large branches were downed. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Georgetown | - | Several roads were closed due to high water throughout the county. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Georgetown | - | High water was reported on several roads. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Georgetown | - | One road was still closed due to high water, along with several others with high water across them. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Georgetown | - | High water was reported on State Route 125. |
| April 2014 | Flood | Georgetown | - | Two barns were flooded due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down powerlines in town. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Georgetown | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Democratic Standard | 1837 to 1850 |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Higginsport School | 1.3 miles | 2000 |
| Burgett House And Barn | 2.7 miles | 1978 | |
 | Pisgah Christian Church | 3.5 miles | 1980 |
| Henry Martin Farm | 4.7 miles | 1975 | |
| Stonehurst | 4.7 miles | 1975 | |
 | Dr. Philip Buckner House And Barn | 5.4 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89002458 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Brown County | All 25 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.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- 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.