Monon Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Monon Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Monon, Indiana. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in the central business district of Monon.”
Wikipedia article Monon Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Market St., bet. 3rd St. and 5th St., and 4th St. bet. Arch St. and Railroad St., Monon, 47959
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. district
Township. Monon township
National Register reference number. 00000672 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monon Commercial Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Monon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monon, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2004	Flash Flood	Monon	$50,000	Emergency management reported flooding in downtown Monon with flash flooding reported. A car dealership and a trailer park had flood damage...with flooding at the Monon Fire Dept.
June 2015	Hail	Monon	-	Nickel to quarter sized hail. A few slightly larger than quarter sized. Wind gusts estimated 40 to 50 mph.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Monon	-	Several 1 to 2 foot diameter partially rotted trees down. Healthy branches up to 4 inches in diameter downed in the area.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Monon	-	Extremely heavy rain within the storm caused water to rise to the curb or above in many streets in Monon. Travel became restricted or slowed on most roads through town.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Monon	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the area.
July 2012	Hail	Monon	-	A trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Monon	-	Local media reported a viewer measuring a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2005	Hail	Monon	-	Another severe thunderstorm produced penny to quarter size hail along US-421 between Monon and Reynolds.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Monon	-	Emergency management reported trees and power lines down with a few power poles down as well.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Monon	-	Monon Fire Dept reported flooding at the station and in downtown Monon.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Monon	-	Emergency management reported flash flooding in Monon with flooding at a trailer park and cars floating at a car dealership.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Monon	-	Emergency management reported the Little Monon Creek was 2 to 3 feet over its banks and stayed in flood through the evening.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Monon	-	Trained spotter reported numerous roads blocked by water over 1 foot deep around Monon.
October 2007	Hail	Monon	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Monon	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Monon	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Monon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	White County Asylum	7.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000672 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 5 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.