Goodland-Grant Township Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Goodland-Grant Township Public Library, also known as the Mitten Memorial Building, is a historic library building located at Goodland, Indiana. It was built in 1931, and is a one-story, rectangular, Colonial Revival style steel frame building on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Goodland-Grant Township Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Goodland--Grant Township Public Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 111 S. Newton St., Goodland, 47948
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Township. Grant township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04001103 - 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.

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodland, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
November 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Goodland	$250,000	The tornado touched down in Goodland causing several large grain bins to cave in on themselves with some of the surrounding scaffolding collapsing. This portion of the storm was consistent with high-end EF-0 damage with estimated winds to 85 mph. The tornado continued into Jasper County around 1:29 PM CST where it further intensified to EF-1.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	Trees and power lines were blown down near Newton Street and Wayland Avenue.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	A large tree limb was blown down.
August 2012	Hail	Goodland	-	Hail ranged from quarter to half dollar size.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	A large tree was blown down blocking a road in far southeast Newton County.
June 2019	Hail	Goodland	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Goodland	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
McCairn-Turner House	0.2 miles	1994
George Ade House	7.0 miles	1976
Newton County Courthouse	7.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 6 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.