Winchester Courthouse Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Winchester Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Winchester, Indiana. The district encompasses 52 contributing buildings and 10 contributing structures in the central business district of Winchester.”
Wikipedia article Winchester Courthouse Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by North St., and the alleys located to the E of Main St., Winchester, 47394
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. district
Township. White River township
National Register reference number. 01000405 - 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.

The ground it stands on

31,943 words

The chapter on White River Township in History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names Winchester. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Early in 1816, Paul W. Way, Henry H. Way, William Way, Jr., Robert Way (a lad sixteen years old), and William Diggs, came from South Carolina and located land four miles west of Winchester. Paul Way returned for his parents and his family.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

In the summer of 1817, William Way returned on horseback alone, to South Carolina, to bring his father, William Way, Sr., to the new country, which purpose he successfully accomplished. With them came, among others, Mrs. Beverly, mother of Dr. Beverly, now of Winchester, and Moorman Way, then a lad of a few years old, but for many years a shrewd, active and successful lawyer, well known to the bar and the courts of the surrounding region for nearly half a century [died 1881.]

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on White River Township - 31,943 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$50,000	Randolph County Airport at Winchester measured 88 mph winds at 0230 EST. Approximately one half dozen barns sustained significant damage to their walls and roofs near and northeast of Winchester. Numerous trees were blown down in the east end of the county at Union City around 0240 EST.
January 2008	Flash Flood	Winchester	$10,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Randolph County. Water was flowing over State Road 32 just east of Winchester. Sandbagging of a residence was also reported due to high water.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$10,000	A tree limb fell on two or three vehicles at a repair shop on 3 West north of 3 North due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$10,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Winchester	$10,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$9,000	Trees were downed on power lines and billboard signs were damaged, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts, along US Highway 27 in Winchester.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$8,000	A large and healthy tree had fallen on a car in the 300 block of East Thompson Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$7,000	Trees and power lines were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A tree fell on a shelter building which destroyed the structure, picnic tables, and a grill.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$6,000	Trees and power lines were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Winchester	$5,000	Water flowing over a road in Winchester with standing water noted along many side streets in town.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$5,000	Utility poles were blown over in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 1998	Tornado (F1)	Winchester	$5,000	Third tornado from supercell crossed into Randolph County farmfields east of Blountsville before dissipating.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$4,000	Numerous trees were down between State Road 1 and U.S. Hwy 27. Trees were also reported down between County Road 300 S and 600 S. Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts also damaged a wall of a farmhouse at 2886 W and 300 S.
November 2017	Flood	Winchester	$3,000	Winchester police closed off North Main Street between 3rd and 4th Streets due to flooding from heavy rainfall. The officer reported water up to his fender wells of his police pick-up truck.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$2,000	Trees and power poles were downed.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	$1,000	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Winchester	-	At Randolph County Fairgrounds.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Several structures were damaged on a farm as a result of thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	A few trees were down across the city due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Large limbs were downed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	Roads were closed by high water.
March 2026	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
April 1998	Flash Flood	Winchester	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Winchester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Winchester Residential Historic District	0.5 miles	2011
Gen. Asahel Stone Mansion	0.8 miles	1979
Randolph County Infirmary	2.6 miles	2018
Ward Township District No. 5 School	6.4 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000405 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 12 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.
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.