Mooresville Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Mooresville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Mooresville, Indiana. The district encompasses 35 contributing buildings and one contributing object in the central business district of Mooresville.”
Wikipedia article Mooresville Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. roughly, one blk N,S, E and W of the corner of Main and Indiana, Mooresville, 46158
When was it listed? March 2003
Category. district
Township. Brown township
National Register reference number. 03000147 - 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mooresville Commercial Historic District between 2005 and 2007, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 October 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mooresville Commercial Historic District: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Gen Shale Prdts Brick Plnt/Brooklyn	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Adams Pit	Clay	Producer
Brooklyn	Clay	Producer
Indiana Tile Clay and Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Groninger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hopkins Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Royal	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
U. S. Aggregates, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooresville, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1996	Tornado (F1)	Mooresville	5 hurt, $2,000,000	no account filed
April 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Mooresville	$500,000	The tornado began northwest of the intersection of concord and main in Mooresville before doing significant roof and tree damage to portions of downtown. The largest damage occurred to a brick building where the roof was uplifted and fell causing structural damage to the building. The tornado continued to track to the southeast before damaging a large picnic shelter and crossing State Road 67. The tornado then \|lifted. In addition to the tornado, an area about 200 yards on either side of the tornado experienced straight line winds that gusted as high as 70 to 80 mph that caused additional damage.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$150,000	A microburst brought significant damage to portions of Mooresville. Several small trees had tree trunks snapped. Roof damage was common with widespread tree limbs snapped. Damage was fairly isolated but significant. Video of the event showed very intense winds.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Mooresville	$80,000	Water rescues and home evacuations occurred in Mooresville because of flash flooding due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. This report was relay via broadcast media from Twitter.
July 2004	Lightning	Mooresville	$30,000	Lightning struck a home, catching its attic on fire.
June 2010	Flood	Mooresville	$10,000	A dam break upstream, along with heavy rainfall, caused flooding along the East Fork White Lick Creek in the Mooresville, Indiana area. As of mid to late afternoon on June 22nd water was up to business properties and crossing Old State Road 67. Property damage estimate is greatly estimated.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$7,000	Trees were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$5,000	A street light was downed.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$2,000	Numerous tree limbs and power lines were downed in Mooresville due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged one or more power transformers. Damage cost is a rough estimate.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$1,500	A large tree was downed in Pioneer Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The fallen tree required a bulldozer to remove.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$1,000	Four inch diameter tree limb downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$1,000	A storm chaser reported a 12 to 15 inch diameter tree down in Mooresville due to thunderstorm wind gusts. This spotter also estimated winds at around 65 miles per hour.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$750	A tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	A 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured near Mooresville.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	A measured 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
May 2014	Hail	Mooresville	-	This report came in from a retired NWS employee.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	A 74 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by a retired NWS employee. The time this event occurred was estimated from radar.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	A resident in the Roberson Woods subdivision in Mooresville, Indiana lost two giant shag-bark walnut trees and received roof damage to a little lake house. Another resident on the entrance road to the subdivision also had a giant tree down between two properties, laying on a roof. Other fallen limbs, mud and debris were all over Landersdale Road on the east side of the subdivision. Time of occurrence is greatly estimated.
June 2008	Hail	Mooresville	-	Hail fell in the Heartland Crossing area.
June 2008	Hail	Mooresville	-	The penny size hail fell in Camby.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Small trees and limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Heavy Rain	Mooresville	-	Measured rainfall of 6.37 inches was reported.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	An isolated severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph in the town of Mooresville.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees and power lines were downed. Trees fell onto at least one home. No damage estimates were available.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Mooresville	-	Water was one foot deep across road.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees blown down.
July 2017	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Mooresville	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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

3 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
Mooresville Friends Academy Building	0.3 miles	1975
Mooresville Gymnasium	0.4 miles	1997
Landers, Franklin-Black and Adams Farm	5.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan County	All 27 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.