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Photograph of Jeffers Bridge
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jeffers Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Jeffers Bridge, also known as the Birch Creek Bridge and Clay County Bridge #127, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge located in Perry Township and Sugar Ridge Township, Clay County, Indiana. It was built by the Vincennes Bridge Company in 1926.”

Wikipedia article Jeffers Bridge, 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. CR 200S over Birch Creek, Clay City, 47846
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Perry township
  • National Register reference number. 00000213 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jeffers Bridge: 2 occurrences, 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 OccurrenceZinc, SulfurOccurrenceStratabound
Sphalerite Occurrence Z83Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindClay City$100,000Strong thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over corn crop and snapped large old growth trees over plus several large limbs of others landing on power lines with enough force to snap the cables. 1 tree landed across a lane of in sr 246.
June 2006LightningClay City$50,000A lightning strike set a home ablaze and killed a breeder calf standing 60 yards away from the home.
July 2001Flash FloodClay City$20,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindClay City$10,000Several large trees were uprooted and numerous tree limbs were snapped with power outages reported in Clay City due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindClay City$10,000no account filed
October 2010Thunderstorm WindClay City$1,000Clay City News reported a large tree down in Goshorn Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Clay City experienced power outages.
July 2008Flash FloodClay City$1,000Heavy rain flooded the streets of Clay City to as much as 3 feet deep in some areas.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindClay City$500no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindClay City-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClay City-Trees were downed.
April 2010HailClay City-no account filed
April 2003HailClay City-no account filed
August 2001HailClay City-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

4 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
Feeder Dam Bridge2.2 miles2000
Aqueduct Bridge3.0 miles2000
Kennedy-Hoffa House5.4 miles2024
Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-13166.7 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000213 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.