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Ohio County, Indiana

43 topographic sheets cover 12 settlements here, and 3 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

3 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Indiana within the United States
Ohio County within Indiana

What the record shows

  • 135 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 3 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 2 districts and 1 building.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 12 populated places in this county; 12 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

3

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 PropertyType ListedReference
Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Companybuilding199999001152
Rising Sun Historic Districtdistrict200606000935
Speakman-Miller-Kittle Farmdistrict2023100009592

Storms, 1957 to 2025

60 of 103 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 103 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 64 injuries and about $1,202,600 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind66
Flash Flood17
Hail11
Tornado6
Flood3

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1974Tornado (F4)not stated64 hurtno account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm Windnot stated$500,000no account filed
January 2000Flash FloodRising Sun$100,000Heavy rainfall caused Bear Creek Road to be closed. Also, the 4th Street Bridge in Rising Sun was washed out.
September 2022Flash FloodAberdeen$55,000Several creeks were out of their banks in the vicinity of Aberdeen Road, mainly to the west of Aberdeen.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Bear Branch$50,000The tornado developed near the Ohio and Switzerland County line, just north of Aberdeen Road. A garage was destroyed on the north side of Aberdeen Road and a well constructed barn on Aberdeen Road was completely destroyed. Much of the debris from this barn was lofted high into the trees behind the barn. Winds at this location were estimated to be around 100 mph. The tornado then continued east through wooded and inaccessible areas, eventually crossing Bear Branch Creek and Texas Gas Road before it dissipated near Milton Bear Branch Road. Along this path, numerous trees were uprooted.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Milton$50,000The tornado first touched down along Milton Bear Branch Road in western Ohio County. The tornado traveled east southeast until it lifted near the 6000 block of Palmer Road. There were numerous occurrences of damage to roofs, siding, barns and trees. Damage of this nature was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with winds topping out at about 70 to 75 mph.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMilton$50,000A farm residence on Hartford Pike Road was damaged, where a house had the top of its roof removed, and several large trees on the nearby hillside were toppled. Tree damage was observed along Laughery Creek and adjacent portions of Hartford Pike Road along the Dearborn/Ohio County border. Structural damage was also observed at several locations along Salem Ridge Road and Belleview Lane, with minor roof damage to homes, and significant damage or destruction of a few barns and garages. This was near the end of a swath of about 13 miles of damage that extended back into Dearborn County. The damage was consistent with winds in the 70 to 80 mph range.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCofield Corner$40,000Three properties along Indiana State Route 56, a few miles west of the Ohio River, sustained damage, starting in the west near Stewart Ridge Road and running about a mile to the east. Several outbuildings and garages were significantly damaged, though homes suffered only minor roof and siding damage. Tree damage in this area was scattered but there were a few uprootings and a couple areas where trees were snapped. The damage was consistent with winds in the 70 to 80 mph range.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$25,000Damage occurred to both the high school and elementary-middle schools allowing leaks to produce some water damage.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$25,000A large tree was uprooted and fell on a ranch style house, collapsing part of the home.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Cofield Corner$20,000The tornado first touched down along the 7300 block of Salem Ridge Road and tracked 5.25 miles to the east, before lifting near Rising Sun. Damage to roofs, siding, power poles and trees occurred, with damage becoming more diffuse and sparse as the storm headed east.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Bear Branch$20,000The tornado briefly touched down in far southwest Ohio County, about 5 miles east-southeast of Cross Plains, in the 1600 block of Aberdeen Road. The tornado destroyed a barn and produced siding and roof damage, as well as rolling 2 recreational vehicles and toppling trees. ||Based on the degree of damage, the tornado produced winds of around 70 mph.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$20,000Numerous trees and large branches in Rising Sun where knocked down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$20,000A barn was knocked down and destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was blown off of a garage and a tree was snapped due to the winds.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMilton$20,000Strong winds damaged a barn roof.
February 2000Flash FloodBear Branch$15,000Razor Hill Road washed out due to several hours of heavy rainfall.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$10,000A home was damaged and the exterior walls of a barn were collapsed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAberdeen$10,000A barn was destroyed on a property off of Cass Union Road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCofield Corner$10,000Numerous trees were downed across the county.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$10,000The press box at the high school softball field was destroyed and blown into the road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAberdeen$10,000A roof was peeled off of a barn. Several trees were downed.
January 2005Flash FloodRising Sun$10,000Several roads in and around town were flooded and closed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$8,000A car park roof was uplifted and a small outbuilding sustained damage.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCountywide$6,000Several trees were downed throughout the county.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBear Branch$5,000Several trees were downed across the western part of the county.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$5,000A few trees were blown down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$5,000Numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Trees and power lines downed.
June 1997Flash FloodRising Sun$5,000Heavy rainfall caused Rt. 56 to flood to the north of Rising Sun.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun Arpt$4,000Several trees were downed on the north side of Rising Sun.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$4,000Several trees were downed in the Rising Sun area.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCountywide$4,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCofield Corner$3,000A few trees were downed along White Road.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindFrench$3,000A few trees were downed on State Route 56.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindHartford$3,000A few trees were downed along Salem Ridge Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Numerous trees and limbs were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and powerlines were downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHartford$3,000Trees were knocked down.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000A few large tree limbs were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and limbs were downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCountywide$3,000Trees knocked down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Numerous trees downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees knocked down.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodCountywide$3,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodCountywide$3,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBear Branch$2,000A tree was downed on Aberdeen Road. Another tree was downed on Willow Creek Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000A couple of trees were downed along Nelson Road outside of Rising Sun.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000A tree fell onto a power line near 2nd Street.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPate$2,000A few trees were downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000One tree and one large limb were knocked down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000Large limbs were knocked down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000A large tree was uprooted along Main Street.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMilton$1,000A tree was knocked down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000One tree was knocked down on Nelson Road.

Mines and quarries

1 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 1 working inside this county. It still produces. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
O'Day Excavating & Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every populated place in the county

12

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.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.