Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“Speedway Historic District is a national historic district located in the Speedway, Indiana, USA It encompasses 304 contributing buildings in a planned residential subdivision of Indianapolis. The district developed between about 1912 and 1955 and includes representative examples of American Foursquare and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.”
Wikipedia article Speedway Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 274 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
National Register reference number.05001015- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Speedway Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Speedway, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 26 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Numerous trees were down, with several on vehicles, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Significant tree damage was reported at Crawfordsville Road and Lynhurst Drive. Damage was also reported from Gerrard and 21st Streets.
Indiana Department of Homeland Security called reporting trees down, power lines down, and damage to homes from around 10th and Tibbs Streets to Meridian Street and Thompson Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
Portions of 16th Street was flooded between the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Downtown Indianapolis due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. This report was relayed by a WISH-TV meteorologist.
A large tree was blown over, snapping below ground level, and tree branches were blown down just northwest of Crawfordsville Road and North Lynhurst Drive due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. There was damage to a carport support beam that was apparently caused by one of the fallen tree branches.
A long-time television weather spotter reported a large 100-year-old tree that had been blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts measured at 70 mph. Power was out in the neighborhood.
Utility lines were down near the intersection of 22nd Street and Fisher Avenue due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The lines were blocking the road.
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
6 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.
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.
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