Pulaski County Bridge No.31

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“Pulaski County Bridge No. 31 is a Stearns truss bridge originally built in 1905 in Pulaski County in the U.S. state of Indiana. In 2006, it was disassembled at its location over Big Monon Ditch, near Medaryville in Pulaski County, and moved to the Wabash and Erie Canal park in Delphi in Carroll County, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Pulaski County Bridge No. 31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 1175 W, Medaryville, 47957
Category. structure
Township. White Post township
National Register reference number. 03000546 - 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 Pulaski County Bridge No.31: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Francesville Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medaryville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	$15,000	A semi was flipped over near the interesection of US-421 and State Route 14.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	$10,000	Law enforcement officials reported power lines down as well as some building damage in Medaryville.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Reports of trees snapped and uprooted. Health and size of trees undefined.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Several 8-12 inch tree limbs down.
June 2013	Hail	Medaryville	-	The public reported golf ball size hail at the intersection of State Routes 39 and 14.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Medaryville	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous roads with water on them. Countless reports of stranded cars in flood waters were received by dispatch.
November 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Medaryville	-	A survey of damage in northern Pulaski county by emergency management and NWS officials revealed damage consistent with a EF1 tornado. The tornado touched down just southwest of U.S. 421 and Delaware Street in Medaryville. Several large, healthy trees suffered damage ranging from broken limbs to trees being snapped at the base (DI: TS DOD: 4). The tornado exited the town and remained over mainly rural areas moving across harvested fields and occasionally impacting groves of trees or center pivot irrigation systems. A barn was completely destroyed (DI: SBO DOD: 8) on North County Road 1050 West. The tornado entered the town of Denham impacting a grain bin, which was moved off its foundation and then flattened. The tornado cause minor tree damage and then lifted just before crossing into Starke county. The maximum wind speed is estimated at 110 mph..
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	The highway department reported several trees were blown down, blocking State Route 143, between U.S 421 and Medaryville.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Law enforcement officials report a few large tree limbs down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Large tree blown down along US 421.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Numerous trees down. Minor home damage.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	Few trees and power lines down.
June 1998	Hail	Medaryville	-	TIME ESTIMATED
April 1994	Hail	Medaryville	-	Brief touchdown near Medaryville damaged a barn roof and another barn nearby. Irrigation equipment was also damaged.
June 2013	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Medaryville	-	no account filed
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Medaryville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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

2 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
	Mallon Building	5.8 miles	1999
	Francesville Commercial Historic District	5.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 10 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.