Photograph of Shakamak State Park — Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Shakamak State Park Historic District

Built in 1929 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Shakamak State Park is a state park in Indiana, United States. It is located 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Terre Haute, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Shakamak State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2000 · category: District · built in 1929, rustic architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 6265 W. IN 48, Jasonville, 47438
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. district
Also known as. New Deal Resources on Indiana State Lands MPS
Township. Lewis township
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 00000199 - 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

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Shakamak State Park Historic District between 2002 and 2008, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000199 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 15 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.