Eikenberry Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Eikenberry Bridge, also known as Bridge 1-19, Lost Bridge, and Miami County Bridge #28, is a historic Pratt Through Truss bridge located in Richland Township, Miami County, Indiana. It was built about 1920 by the Rochester Bridge Company and spans the Eel River.”
Wikipedia article Eikenberry Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 2006 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. IN 100 E over Eel R in Richland Twp., Chili, 46926
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. structure
Township. Jefferson township
National Register reference number. 06000848 - 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

7,329 words

This property stands in Jefferson Township. History of Miami County, published 1896 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the homestead stood upon a rise above the lower land, or where the "second bottom" lies and distant views expand; and near some water course, or spring, affording full supply, flowing along, a silvery string, to where the meadows lie, horace p. biddle. what is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?, emerson, essay on history. his township was named in honor of the great statesman, thomas jefferson. it contains an area of about 21,120 acres and is bounded on the north by union, east by richland and peru, south by peru and west by cass county. the surface is pleasantly diversified; the soil is excellent for generak agricultural. purposes. the country is drained and watered by eel river and its tributaries. the eel river valley is one of the best improved districts in indiana. the land is well drained and elegant country residences and good large barns. are found on every farm. the rich soil attracted settlers and this township was settled when there were not more than a dozen rude cabins in miamisport.

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 Jefferson Township - 7,329 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eikenberry Bridge in 2003, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Miami County

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 Eikenberry Bridge: 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
	Wolf Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms near this property

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chili, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	$10,000	Emergency management officials reported a large tree fell onto a car. The car was unoccupied at the time. Damage to the car is estimated at $10,000.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	$3,000	Law enforcement reported a roof blown off a home just north of Chili.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down.
July 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Chili	-	A NWS survey of damage indicated a tornado touched down northeast of Denver, near the intersection of N Warsaw Trail and E County Road 800 N. The tornado remained over open fields for part of its time, doing crop damage along its path. Some trees were either snapped or uprooted. A poorly anchored, older barn was destroyed near the intersection of N County Road 600 East and E County Road 900 N. The tornado lifted shortly after crossing 900 N. Maximum winds were estimated at around 90 mph.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	A trained spotter reported a large walnut tree was uprooted along east 600 North, east of Paw Paw Pike. A house suffered roof loss in the area, with a hog barn being partially destroyed.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines in the area.
June 2002	Hail	Chili	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Chili	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Paw Paw Creek Bridge No. 52	4.9 miles
Peru High School Historic District	6.9 miles	2013
Godfroy's Addition Historic District	7.0 miles	2023
Brownell Block/Senger Dry Goods Company Building	7.0 miles	1983
Miami County Courthouse	7.0 miles	2008
James Omar Cole House	7.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000848 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami County	All 18 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.