Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“Linton Public Library, also known as the Margaret Cooper Library, is a historic library building located at Linton, Indiana. It was designed by noted Chicago architecture firm Patton & Miller and built in 1908.”
Wikipedia article Linton Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001141- 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.
Grandfather Hale built a log cabin about five miles from Linton, in the Buck neighborhood, this township- Old Uncle Jesse Powell built the first house on the farm where Alexander Beasley now lives. Several of the Powell family yet live in Greene county.
Mr. Thomas Mason la rather an old citizen of Greene county, having came to Linton when a young man, and commenced business with Wickliff Wines, in a tan-yard, which he carried on for a number of years successfully. He married Miss Fields, whom Wickliff Wines raised. He is about forty-five years of age.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Linton Public Library
between 2002 and 2007, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Linton, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 7 hail, 3 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.
A line of strong to severe storms moved across central and southern Indiana during the evening. As the line of storms approached Greene County a surge or bowing segment was noted in the line. This allowed for a quick moving tornado to impact downtown Linton. The tornado started near the corner of A Street SW and 6th Street SW and moved northeast through downtown Linton. The strongest damage was noted along Main St between West Vincennes St and A Street SW. This is where damage consistent with an EF1 tornado had occurred. This caused damage to roofs of masonry buildings in downtown Linton. Splatter of dirt and mud in a manner consistent with a tornado was found. The tornado continued to move east-northeast doing damage between A Street NE and East Vincennes Street. Additional roof damage and tree damage was found along the path. The tornado eventually weakened and lifted shortly after moving past 12th Street NE. Maximum winds were estimated at 100 mph.
The county sheriff reported numerous water rescues of people from vehicles due to flash flooding from heavy thunderstorm rainfall. This occurred at several locations throughout the county.
The Greene County Daily World reported flash flooding in Linton that occurred in Humphrey Park due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Water was at least a foot deep in some spots. The time this event occurred is estimated.
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.
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.
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.
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