Richwood Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Richwood Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as Cross Roads Lutheran Church, is a historic Lutheran church at 9700 West County Road 700 South in the unincorporated town of Cross Roads, Delaware County, Indiana, USA. It was built in 1868, and is a one-story, Gothic Revival style brick building with a bell tower.”
Wikipedia article Richwood Evangelical Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Delaware 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 9700 West County Road 700 South, Middleton, 47334
When was it listed? December 2004
Category. building
Township. Salem township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 04001314 - 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

15,031 words

This property stands in Salem Township. A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana :, published 1894 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Salem Township - 15,031 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Richwood Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Chesterfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
	Martin Hofherr Farm	7.1 miles	1992
	Forest Park Elementary School	7.2 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001314 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 47 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.