North Vernon Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“North Vernon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at North Vernon, Indiana, United States. It encompasses 80 contributing buildings and one contributing structure in the central business district of North Vernon.”
Wikipedia article North Vernon Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jennings County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Sixth and Chestnut Sts., Keller St., Fourth and Main, and Jennings, North Vernon, 47265
When was it listed? April 2006
Category. district
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 06000306 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Vernon Downtown Historic District: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
North Vernon Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jennings County

Storms near this property

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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	Tornado (EF0)	North Vernon	$100,000	An EF0 tornado touched down near county roads 535 W and 300 S, seven miles to the southwest of North Vernon. At this location there was significant structural damage to a barn and a metal bridge over a creek thrown several hundred feet. A portion of a roof of a house was torn off, a number of outbuildings were damaged, and the end of a tool shed was damaged. In addition to this damage, trees also blew down during the storm.
June 2005	Tornado (F1)	North Vernon	$100,000	The remnants of Tropical Storm Arlene spawned an F1 tornado southwest of Hayden, Indiana. The tornado touched down at County Roads 500 South and 750 West and lifted at County Road 900 West and US Highway 50. Several outbuildings were damaged, and several grain bins were overturned. Numerous trees were also downed by the tornado. The tornado was on the ground for 11 minutes, with a path length of 5.3 miles and a width of 75 yards. No one was injured by the tornado. Damage amounts are estimated.
May 2002	Flash Flood	North Vernon	$50,000	Parts of SR 7 and U.S. 50 flooded
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and utility lines on northeast side of North Vernon. Trees fell mainly to the north and northeast.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$10,000	Extensive tree damage reported via Facebook due to thunderstorm wind gusts across North Vernon.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$10,000	Utility lines, trees, and tree limbs were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$10,000	Trees and power lines were reported down across Jennings County. A few observations of pea sized hail were reported as well.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$10,000	Trees were down and there was structural damage to a restaurant due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$5,000	Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$3,000	A tree fell on a house in North Vernon due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$2,000	Power lines downed by falling tree limbs due to damaging winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$2,000	Four to five foot diameter trees and power lines were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$2,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down at this and numerous other locations across the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$1,000	no account filed
July 2015	Flood	North Vernon	$500	Highway 50 is flooded due to moderate to heavy rainfall, but traffic is able to get through.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$500	Small tree limbs were downed on personal property due to estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	$500	An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was observed in this location. A 50 foot dead tree was blown down.
June 2022	Hail	North Vernon	-	Thunderstorm continued to produce golf-ball sized hail in North Vernon.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. One tree had a diameter of 12 inches.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds onto State Highway 3 north of North Vernon. Other trees were found down countrywide.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds onto State Highway 50 east of North Vernon. Other trees were found down countrywide.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. One tree had a diameter of 12 inches.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees were reported down in the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees, a home, and some vehicles were damaged by thunderstorm winds near North Vernon.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees/Limbs down
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees down
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	Trees down
May 2025	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	North Vernon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	no account filed
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	North Vernon	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	North Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jennings 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

5 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
Annadale	0.1 miles	2007
Walnut Street Historic District	0.5 miles	2006
State Street Historic District	0.6 miles	2007
Vernon Historic District	1.9 miles	1976
Scipio Covered Bridge	7.5 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000306 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jennings 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.