Feeder Dam Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Feeder Dam Bridge, also known as the Eel River Bridge and Clay County Bridge No. 208, is a historic Whipple through truss bridge located in Harrison Township and Sugar Ridge Township, Clay County, Indiana. It was built in 1894 and carries Towpath Road over the Eel River.”
Wikipedia article Feeder Dam 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. Towpath Rd. over Eel R., Clay City, 47841
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. structure
Township. Sugar Ridge township
National Register reference number. 00000215 - 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Feeder Dam Bridge in 2003, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning	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
10 November 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

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 Feeder Dam Bridge: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Zinc, Sulfur, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ashboro North Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Clay City Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z83	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Stratabound

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$100,000	Strong 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 2006	Lightning	Clay City	$50,000	A lightning strike set a home ablaze and killed a breeder calf standing 60 yards away from the home.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Clay City	$20,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$10,000	Several large trees were uprooted and numerous tree limbs were snapped with power outages reported in Clay City due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$10,000	no account filed
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$1,000	Clay City News reported a large tree down in Goshorn Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Clay City experienced power outages.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Clay City	$1,000	Heavy rain flooded the streets of Clay City to as much as 3 feet deep in some areas.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	$500	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clay City	-	Trees were downed.
April 2010	Hail	Clay City	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Clay City	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Clay 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jeffers Bridge	2.2 miles	2000
Aqueduct Bridge	3.6 miles	2000
Kennedy-Hoffa House	6.0 miles	2024
Indiana State Highway Bridge 46-11-1316	6.0 miles	2000
Tide Water Pumping Station	6.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000215 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.
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.