Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
“Thompson-Ray House is a historic home located at Gas City, Indiana. It was built between 1902 and 1906, and is a Late Victorian Free Classic style brick and stone dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Thompson-Ray House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Mill Township. History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Mill Township - 12,490 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Thompson-Ray House: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas City-Own Crews | Stone | Producer | ||
| Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own Crews | Stone | Producer | ||
| Grant Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jack Himelick Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Marion Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gas City, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 17 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | $1,000 | Video on Facebook shows a large tree falling in Gas City. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Gas City | $1,000 | In addition to the hail, the spotter recorded a 51mph wind gust via anemometer. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Gas City | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A mesonet station IN008 Gas City. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF3) | Gas City | - | This intense tornado developed just southeast of Gas City and tracked rapidly|northeast before dissipating just east of 900 E and just south of 100 S. Numerous|homes sustained minor to major damage along this track with extensive tree damage|noted in many areas. The hardest hit area was just east off Blackthorn Drive where|several homes were destroyed. Tornado weakened as it crossed I-69 yet continued to|produce varying degrees of damage to barns, trees and homes before it dissipated. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Emergency management officials reported damage to a house from a tree falling onto it. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A 50 foot section of wall and roof collapsed at the Dollar General Warehouse. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | A mesonet site recorded a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Trained spotters reported trees down across the county. One large tree was blocking the road at State Route 18 and Western Avenue. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Six trees, each approximately 12 inches in diameter, were blown down. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | Numerous power and telephone lines blown down. |
| August 2001 | Flood | Gas City | - | Intersections flooded at SR 15 and 22, and SR 9 and 22, and SR 22 and US 35. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR I-69 AND STATE ROADS 22 AND 35. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCH MEASURED IN GAS CITY. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gas City | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gas City High School | 0.2 miles | 2004 |
 | West Ward School | 0.5 miles | 1985 |
| Marion Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District | 2.5 miles | 1999 | |
 | Israel Jenkins House | 4.1 miles | 2003 |
 | Marion PCC & St. Louis Railroad Depot | 5.0 miles | 2018 |
| Joseph W. and Edith M. Stephenson House | 5.1 miles | 2021 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000756 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Grant County | All 23 listed properties in this county. |
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