Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“County Bridge No. 45 is a historic Pratt Through Truss bridge located in Washington Township, Daviess County, Indiana. It was built by the Indiana Bridge Company and erected in 1903.”
Wikipedia article County Bridge No. 45, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 2006 · category: Structure · built in 1903.
National Register reference number.06000856- 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.
Fires near this property
4 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of County Bridge #45
between 2003 and 2007, burning about 9 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
2
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
18 September 2007
Equipment and vehicle use
5.0 acres
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
13 April 2006
Equipment and vehicle use
3.0 acres
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
9 March 2005
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
25 October 2003
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
Storms near this property
19 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wheatland, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail.
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.
Flooding occurred along the White River in Knox County, including near the Petersburg, Hazleton, and Edwardsport areas, due to heavy rain and levee breaches. Levee unit 8 failed in the Smother's Creek area near Edwardsport. The levee breach failure caused the White River to crest at Edwardsport. More than 20,000 acres of Daviess County flooded as a result of the levee failure.
All four lanes of United States Highway 50 were under water due to heavy rainfall. Homes were flooded in Edwardsport. Water poured into the energy generating plant. Albert Street was flooded.
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
1 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.
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.
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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