57 topographic sheets cover 40 settlements here, and 13 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.
13 National Register listings published here · the county-history sources name 47 people · people the book names include William Cobb (Washington Township, 1887) · Dover By Levi Denny (Zionsville Town, 1887) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Boone County Courthouse | building | 1986 | 86002703 |
 | Brock, Pryor Farmstead | district | 2008 | 08000569 |
 | Strange Nathanial Cragun House | building | 2011 | 11000908 |
 | Howard School | building | 2009 | 09000754 |
| Lebanon Courthouse Square Historic District | district | 2016 | 16000610 | |
 | Maplelawn Farmstead | district | 2011 | 11000656 |
 | Oak Hill Cemetery | district | 2014 | 14000068 |
 | Scotland Bridge | structure | 1994 | 94000228 |
 | Simpson-Breedlove House | building | 2016 | 16000075 |
 | Thorntown Public Library | building | 1986 | 86002708 |
 | Town Hall (Castle Hall) | building | 1983 | 83000115 |
 | Traders Point Hunt Rural Historic District | district | 2009 | 09000421 |
 | Ulen Historic District | district | 2015 | 15000591 |
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 408 reports for this county, causing 21 deaths, 108 injuries and about $32,913,700 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 195 |
| Hail | 129 |
| Tornado | 34 |
| Flood | 23 |
| Flash Flood | 17 |
| Lightning | 5 |
| Funnel Cloud | 3 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1965 | Tornado (F4) | not stated | 20 killed, 80 hurt, $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | 1 killed, $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds at 904 Edwards Drive pushed over a boom lift that was 125 feet high. An adult male in the boom at the time of the strong winds was killed. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Jamestown | 8 hurt, $1,650,000 | A tornado associated with a low-topped supercell touched down a quarter of a mile south of the Boone/Hendricks county line in Hendricks county. The tornado continued northeast through Jamestown and into Boone county causing significant damage to a dozen homes. 2 homes had their roofs blown completely off and tossed several hundred feet into a corn field. There were 8 minor injuries including one man whose semi was blown over along Interstate 74. Estimated wind speeds were around 110 mph or on the high end of an F1 rating. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F2) | Lebanon | 5 hurt, $2,000,000 | The Montgomery County tornado entered Boone County at 0008 EST near Interstate 74 and moved through the south side of the town of Advance before lifting near County Roads 325S and 700W. Nine homes were destroyed and 28 were damaged in Advance. Two businesses received major damage including the Boone County Frontier CO-OP. |
| June 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | 5 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF2) | Max | 2 hurt, $200,000 | At 1536EST, this EF-2 tornado touched down 3 miles southwest of Lebanon. The tornado tracked from southwest of Lebanon through an industrial area just west of Interstate 65 and State Route 39. The tornado crossed Interstate 65 near the State Route 39 interchange, Exit 139, and heavily damaged a Starbucks on the east side of the interchange. Several homes sustained damage in the neighborhood directly east-northeast of the Starbucks. The tornado lifted one mile south of Lebanon at 1542EST. |
| March 1971 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 2 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 1961 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 2 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | 1 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Vlg | 1 hurt, $15,000 | A driver was injured by a tree falling due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This event was reported by WTHR. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | 1 hurt, $10,000 | Tree blown down on house trapped man underneath, seriously injuring him. |
| May 1987 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $300,000 | Multiple cars and trucks were blown off of Interstate 65, between mile markers 147 and 152, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A barn was also destroyed near this location. A larger pole barn was destroyed on County Road 400 North near 450 North. |
| May 1991 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| October 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| November 1965 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| November 1965 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 1965 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Zionsville | $175,000 | Lightning struck a home in the Fox Hollow Subdivision of Zionsville, Indiana. Significant damage was caused by the ensuing fire. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Thorntown | $150,000 | Continuation of the Montgomery County EF1 tornado, which ultimately entered Clinton County before reaching EF2 intensity, (a secondary, weaker EF0 tornado simultaneously crossed from Montgomery to Boone County, tracking about 1.0-1.5 miles southeast of this tornado). Damage along this Boone County segment was mainly along County Road 900 North, where panels from the northeast side of a barn roof were ripped off and carried 0.25 to 0.50 miles east and northeast. Also, a path of uprooted hardwood trees occurred just northeast of the barn, consistent with high-end EF0-intensity winds as strong as 85 mph. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Thorntown | $120,000 | Continuation from Montgomery County of the secondary, EF0 tornado (that tracked just southeast of the nearby, multi-county EF2 tornado). A barn just west of the Montgomery-Boone county line was partially destroyed by 85 mph winds, with debris blown into Boone County and one-quarter mile to the northeast. The tornado also downed utility poles along the county line road before causing tree damage and shifting an older barn from its foundation. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | $100,000 | Emergency manager reports severe tree damage across county due to thunderstorm wind gusts. Numerous snapped tree limbs and small trees with widespread power outages. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | Zionsville | $100,000 | A house was heavily damaged by a lightning strike-induced fire. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northfield | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Zionsville | $85,000 | Lightning struck a home in the Brittany Chase Subdivision of Zionsville, Indiana. The strike sparked a small fire in the attic, which was contained by local firefighters, but not before causing significant damage to the home. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shepherd | $75,000 | Two semi trucks were blown by thunderstorm wind gusts on Interstate 65 near mile marker 136. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Lebanon | $75,000 | A second tornado, associated with a low-topped supercell that damaged homes in the Jamestown area, touched down in rural Boone county. Eyewitnesses reported funnel clouds and scattered damage along the path. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | $50,000 | The roof was taken off an apartment building with plywood on the street near the intersection of State Route 39 and State Route 32 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Advance | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thorntown | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Thorntown | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Terhune | $45,000 | Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts caused roof damage to multiple structures in Terhune. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thorntown | $35,000 | Thunderstorm winds from a squall line bookend destroyed a barn west of Thorntown. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Whitestown | $35,000 | This EF-1 tornado, with winds estimated at 100 mph, moved from 2.5 miles ESE of Whitestown to 2.6 miles ESE of Whitestown. The tornado demolished a small barn and did some minor damage to a home. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF2) | Royalton | $25,000 | An EF-2 tornado, with peak winds estimated at 115 mph, destroyed a pole barn. A grain bin and farm equipment were also damaged. Tree trunks were snapped, limbs were downed, and some corn was flattened along the tornado's path. This tornado occurred between Whitestown and Zionsville. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitestown | $25,000 | Trees were snapped, large limbs and fences were downed, roof shingles were blown off, air conditioning units were moved and twisted, and a patio set was moved over a city block due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Event occurred at Green Willow Road and Limelight Lane. |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Zionsville | $25,000 | Lightning struck a home in the Willow Ridge Subdivision of Zionsville, Indiana on the morning of 19 May 2005. The homeowner reported that they not only heard, but felt the strike. The homeowner was not injured. The strike caused a small fire in the basement and floor joists. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitestown | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1990 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1973 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 1962 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1961 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1957 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| February 1956 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | $21,000 | In the 1700 block of Crimson Lane, a chimney was blown onto a roof, shingles were blown off, and a swing set was knocked over due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Gadsden | $20,000 | Several reports of flooded roads with water impacting both US 52 and Interstate 65 in northern Boone County. Total rainfall was as high as 4.2 inches. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizaville | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizaville | $20,000 | Two reports of minor structural damage due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Thorntown | $20,000 | A brief EF-1 tornado touched down west of Thorntown in Boone County. Winds estimated at 90 mph damaged a barn by removing a large section of roof and tossing it several hundred yards into a field. One of the barn's walls collapsed. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Advance | $20,000 | Eighteen utility poles were downed along State Road 75 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $20,000 | Power poles were downed and laying across State Road 75, south of County Road 500 South between Advance and Jamestown, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike | $20,000 | Damaging thunderstorm wind gust caused widespread structural damage to grain elevators and outside buildings, with multiple large trees down. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizaville | $15,000 | Numerous trees and utility lines were downed across the eastern portion of the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. No specific locations were able to be provided. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $15,000 | A grain bin was reported damaged at County Road 650 West and State Route 32 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $15,000 | State Route 32 was reported closed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts causing power lines to come down, debris in the road, and an overturned semi. Highway 52 is also blocked by a downed tree. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | $15,000 | A barn was blown down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Vlg | $12,000 | A tree was down across a car at Oak and Sycamore Streets due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $12,000 | A semi-truck was reported overturned at mile marker 49.5 on Interstate 74 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | $12,000 | A semi was blown off of Interstate 65 north of Lebanon. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 4 workings inside this county. 1 still produces and 3 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 4 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midstate Aggregate Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| O.J. Pearcy Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Routh Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Skaggs Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
History of Boone County, Indiana : With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 10 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.
| Shape and position in the county | Township | Settlements in it | Length | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center Township | Brendan Wood, Dale, Elmwood, Hazel College, Lebanon, Northfield Village, Stringtown, Ulen | 705 words | 0 | |
| Clinton Township | Elizaville | 2,960 words | 1 | |
| Harrison Township | Milledgeville, New Brunswick | 548 words | 0 | |
| Jackson Township | Advance, Jamestown | 11,623 words | 3 | |
| Jefferson Township | Dover, Hazelrigg, Max | 6,889 words | 13 | |
| Marion Township | Terhune, Waugh | 1,059 words | 0 | |
| Sugar Creek Township | Thorntown | 5,415 words | 3 | |
| Washington Township | Mechanicsburg, Pike | 13,329 words | 26 | |
| Worth Township | Whitestown | 7,549 words | 3 | |
| Zionsville Town | Allens Acres, Big Springs, Eagle Village, Eaglewood Estates, Fayette, Fox Hollow, Gadsden, Hamilton, Herr, Northern Meadows, Northfield, Rosston, Royalton, Russell Lake, Shepherd, Stonegate, The Woodlands, Zionsville | 37,254 words | 40 |
One book written about this county, cut here where the book itself is cut, at its printed chapters: 21 chapters in all. Every chapter is public domain, machine-read from the scan and reproduced complete. A chapter already given under one of the county's towns is not repeated in this list.
Everyone History of Boone County, Indiana : With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families stops to write about, with the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in the words of 1914.
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Clair Brook · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Sink Creek · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Cox Creek · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
No longer a settlement
Washington township · 46050 · On Browns Wonder Creek · Mechanicsburg quadrangle
9 sheets, 1953 to 1984
Harrison township · 46052 · Near South Fork Prairie · Lizton quadrangle
13 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Boone Creek · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Russell Branch · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Green Creek · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
Sugar Creek township · 46071 · On Prairie Creek · Thorntown quadrangle
10 sheets, 1953 to 1984
Zionsville town · 46077 · On Cross Branch · Zionsville quadrangle
18 sheets, 1953 to 1998
The vanished settlements of Boone County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.
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