Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery are located in New Durham Township, LaPorte County, Indiana at Wozniak Road with State Road 2. Known as the village of Pinhook, formerly New Durham.”
Wikipedia article Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8001 IN 2, LaPorte, 46350
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. building
Township. New Durham township
National Register reference number. 09000759 - 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 Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
	Producers Core Sand Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Satoski Marl Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaPorte, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1996: 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1996	Hail	Laporte	-	no account filed
August 1996	Lightning	Laporte	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Everel S. Smith House	2.5 miles	1990
James and Lavinia Forrester Farmstead	3.1 miles	2017
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Carmel Chapel and Carmel Cemetery	3.1 miles	2021
John and Cynthia Garwood Farmstead	4.2 miles	2012
William Orr House	5.2 miles	1984
Ames Family Homestead	5.2 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaPorte County	All 34 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.