Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
“John Wood Farmstead is a historic home and farm located in Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana. The farm was established in 1822, and the two-story, brick I-house built in 1831.”
Wikipedia article John Wood Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Rush County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Orange Township. History of Rush County, Indiana, from the Earliest Time to the Present : with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc., Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1888; Rush County War Activities, 1861 to 1918, at Home and in the Field, published 1918 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Orange Township - 7,970 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of John Wood Farmstead in 2004, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John Wood Farmstead: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Corkle Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| St Omer Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Rush County Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milroy, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | $7,000 | Several trees and utility lines were down around County Road 600 South and State Road 3 in Southern Rush County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was relayed by the county emergency manager. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | $5,000 | Trees and utility lines were blown down throughout Milroy by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | $2,000 | Utility poles were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds at the intersection of State Road 244 and State Road 3. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Milroy | - | Thunderstorm hail as large as quarters over southern Rush County. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in Milroy. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Winds of 60 to 70 mph were reported at Milroy. Buildings were damaged at the C.F. Meer Farms. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | no account filed |
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.
Other 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Moscow Covered Bridge | 0.8 miles | 1983 |
 | James F. Harcourt House | 1.8 miles | 1989 |
 | Forsythe Covered Bridge | 2.7 miles | 1983 |
 | Rush County Bridge No. 188 | 4.3 miles | 2000 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000201 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Rush County | All 28 listed properties in this county. |
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