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Photograph of Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316, also known as Bowling Bridge, is a historic Parker through truss bridge located in Washington Township, Clay County, Indiana. It was built by the Vincennes Bridge Company and erected in 1939.”

Wikipedia article Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. IN 46 over Eel R., Bowling Green, 47833
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 00000211 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ashboro North PitClay, CoalProducer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z83Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowling Green, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodBowling Green$45,000,000Flooding occurred along the Eel River in Clay County, including near Bowling Green, due to heavy rainfall.
March 2008FloodBowling Green$15,000Flooding occurred along the Eel River in Clay County, including near Bowling Green, due to heavy rain.
February 2008FloodBowling Green$10,000Flooding occurred along the Eel River in Clay County, including near Bowling Green, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBowling Green$5,000Several power lines and large trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts in Bowling Green. Additional damage was reported in surrounding areas with 2 trees downed on vehicles.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindBowling Green$3,000A 22 foot Coleman pool was lifted and caved in by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBowling Green$1,000A large tree was downed on State Road 46 near Bowling Green due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindBowling Green$500no account filed
February 2009FloodBowling Green-Flooding occurred along the Eel River in Clay County, including in and near Bowling Green, due to heavy rain.
April 2009FloodBowling Green-Flooding occurred along the Eel River in Clay County in and near Bowling Green, IN.
April 2009FloodBowling Green-Extensive flooding of bottomlands and some county roads occurred along the Eel River in Clay County in and near Bowling Green, IN. The river crested at 17.79 feet on April 6th.
May 2009FloodBowling Green-Extensive flooding of bottomlands occurred along the Eel River in and near Bowling Green, Indiana. The river crested 2.4 feet above flood stage on May 15th at a reading of 19.4 feet. Crop damage is grossly estimated.
June 2008Heavy RainBowling Green-Measured rainfall of 9.50 inches was reported.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBowling Green-Trees were downed.
June 2006HailBowling Green-No property damage reported.
April 2010HailBowling Green-no account filed
March 2006HailBowling Green-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBowling Green-no account filed
April 2002Flash FloodBowling Green-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Kennedy-Hoffa House3.7 miles2024
Indiana State Highway Bridge 42-11-31014.4 miles2000
Poland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery5.5 miles1990
Feeder Dam Bridge6.0 miles2000
Jeffers Bridge6.7 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000211 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay CountyAll 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.
  • 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.