Rising Sun Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Rising Sun Historic District is a national historic district located at Rising Sun, Indiana. The district encompasses 322 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing objects in Rising Sun.”
Wikipedia article Rising Sun Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Ohio 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. Roughly bounded by the Union and Soldier's Cemeteries, High St., Front St., and Maiden Ln., Rising Sun, 47040
When was it listed? October 2006
Category. district
Township. Randolph township
National Register reference number. 06000935 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rising Sun Historic District: 2 producers. 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
	Burlington Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	O'Day Excavating & Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising Sun, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2000	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	$100,000	Heavy rainfall caused Bear Creek Road to be closed. Also, the 4th Street Bridge in Rising Sun was washed out.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$25,000	Damage occurred to both the high school and elementary-middle schools allowing leaks to produce some water damage.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$25,000	A large tree was uprooted and fell on a ranch style house, collapsing part of the home.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$20,000	Numerous trees and large branches in Rising Sun where knocked down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$20,000	A barn was knocked down and destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was blown off of a garage and a tree was snapped due to the winds.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$10,000	A home was damaged and the exterior walls of a barn were collapsed.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$10,000	The press box at the high school softball field was destroyed and blown into the road.
January 2005	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	$10,000	Several roads in and around town were flooded and closed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$8,000	A car park roof was uplifted and a small outbuilding sustained damage.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$5,000	A few trees were blown down.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$5,000	Numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused Rt. 56 to flood to the north of Rising Sun.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$4,000	Several trees were downed in the Rising Sun area.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Numerous trees and limbs were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Trees and powerlines were downed.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	A few large tree limbs were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Trees and limbs were downed.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	A few trees were knocked down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Numerous trees downed.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	Trees knocked down.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$3,000	no account filed
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$2,000	A couple of trees were downed along Nelson Road outside of Rising Sun.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$2,000	A tree fell onto a power line near 2nd Street.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$2,000	One tree and one large limb were knocked down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$2,000	Large limbs were knocked down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$2,000	Trees were knocked down across the county.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$1,000	A large tree was uprooted along Main Street.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$1,000	One tree was knocked down on Nelson Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$1,000	Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$1,000	no account filed
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	$100	Several large tree limbs were downed.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	-	The public relayed the wind gust report.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	-	Nelson Road was flooded and impassable.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	-	Roads were flooded near State Route 56.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Rising Sun	-	Heavy rains washed debris onto State Route 262, closing that road for a short period of time.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rising Sun	-	Winds gusted to 60 mph.
April 2025	Hail	Rising Sun	-	no account filed
October 2016	Hail	Rising Sun	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Rising Sun	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Rising Sun	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Rising Sun	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
	Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company	under 500 feet	1999
	Speakman-Miller-Kittle Farm	5.5 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000935 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ohio County	All 3 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.