Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“The Medora Covered Bridge was the longest covered bridge in the United States with the entire original historic truss still in place with some repairs but no structural changes. Measuring the clear span of 431 feet 10 inches (131.62 m), the Medora Covered Bridge is the longest historic covered bridge in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Medora Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1875, by J. J. Daniels.
National Register reference number.07000977- 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
3 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Medora Covered Bridge: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Medora, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flood, 3 flash 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.
Several cars drove into standing water on the road and needed rescue. One was located at the intersection of 400W and 200S. Another incident was noted near the 12000 block of County Road 700N.
Flooding occurred along the Muscatatuck River in Jackson County, including near Wheeler Hollow, due to heavy rain and snow melt. Flooding continued until April 17th at 16:33.
Flooding occurred along the Muscatatuck River in Jackson County, including near Wheeler Hollow, due to heavy rain and snow melt. This flooding is a continuation from flooding that began on March 4th at 0600. March flood damage estimates are near ten thousand dollars.
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
5 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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