Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“North Liberty Park, also known as North Liberty Community Park, is a historic public park and national historic district located at North Liberty, Indiana. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, three contributing structures, and two contributing objects in a public park.”
Wikipedia article North Liberty Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 101 National Register listings published here for St. Joseph County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
Also known as. New Deal Work Relief Projects in St. Joseph County, Indiana MPS
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number.07000211- 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
6,497 words
The chapter on Liberty Township in History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 names North Liberty. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Liberty township formerly embraced the territory included iu Lincoln township, but being inconvenient for the settlers that resided in (now) Lincoln township to attend elections, in June, 1866, according to petitions of Lincoln settlers, it was detached and made an independent township. Liberty is generally known as being among the first settled townships in St. Joseph county. The first settlements were made iu 1833 near North Liberty, by John Kane, John and Jacob Earhart and Isaac Townsend. But few other settlers came into the township till 1836. John Rupel came in January, tliis year, soon followed by David Rupel, Jas. Cole, Jacob Rupel and Joseph Liggett.
In May, 1837, the township was organized by the following persons: Daniel and James Antrim, John and David Rupel, Samuel Loring, James Cole, Jacob Rupel and Joseph Liggett. The first election was held the same spring, in North Liberty, at the house of Jas. P. Antrim, who was elected Justice of the Peace. In 1838 Mr. AValdsmith, father of Geo. Waldsmith, a present resident of Liberty township, settled on section 30.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of North Liberty Park: 1 producer, 1 past producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
North Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
Emergency management officials reported widespread flooding and flash flooding across portions of the county from North Liberty into the South Bend/Mishawaka area to the state line. The most extensive, and in some cases life threatening, flash flooding occurred in the city of South Bend where over a dozen roads were closed due to a foot or more of water flowing over the roads. Several homes were impacted by flood waters with basement/foundation damage to at least 2 homes that required evacuation/rescue of the homeowners. Many others were displaced across the city and outlying county areas. The flood waters lifted a local media outlets car off the road and onto a rail along the road, allowing the occupants to escape before it flipped over. Rainfall reports of 4 to 8 inches were recorded in a short period of time as precipitable waters of over 2.2 inches advected into the area. Many roads remained closed for several days as flood waters were slow to recede. Damage totals were $5,100,000. Under FEMA guidelines, a total of 845 homes were affected. Of those 300 suffered significant damage and 180 were deemed catastrophic.
Extensive flooding occurred across the county as all area waterways exceeded their limited, reaching record levels in some spots. Residents had to be evacuated along many of the rivers with numerous homes and businesses suffering varying degrees of damage. In addition, numerous roads were closed due to high water for several days including portions of US 331, 20 and 6 as well as several state routes. Washouts were reported in some areas. Damage estimates totaled at least 1.1 million dollars.
Amateur radio operators relayed reports of hail ranging from the size of quarters to golf balls in an area from North Liberty to three miles north of North Liberty.
Local media outlets reported scattered trees and tree limbs down across the city of North Liberty, including near the intersection of Wolf and State Route 23. Several tents at local festival were also picked up. No injuries were reported.
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.
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.
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