Ceylon Covered Bridge

Built in 1862. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Ceylon Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge over the Wabash River and located at Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana. It was built in 1879 by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio, and is a 130-foot-long (40 m) truss bridge.”
Wikipedia article Ceylon Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1862.

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. CR 900 S over Wabash R in Limberlost County Park, Ceylon, 46740
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. structure
Township. Wabash township
When was it built? 1862
National Register reference number. 06001289 - 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 Ceylon Covered Bridge: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
	Adams City Highway Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Karch Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ceylon, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Ceylon	-	The tornado initially began over an open field north of the intersection of East County Road 1200 South and South County Road 600 East and moved east towards the Indiana/Ohio state line. Damage was limited to an outbuilding, some tree damage and shingle damage to a home along East 1200 South in Adams County, Indiana. The tornado then entered Mercer County, Ohio.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ceylon	-	A trained spotter measured a 63 mph wind gust.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ceylon	-	Emergency management officials reported the roof blown off a pole barn at South County Road 000 and 800 South. Several trees were also blown down in the area, with small stalks of corn flattened.
August 2019	Hail	Ceylon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
	Geneva Downtown Commercial Historic District	1.7 miles	2002
	Gene Stratton Porter Cabin	2.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001289 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams 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.