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Photograph of Straber Ford Bridge
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Straber Ford Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Straber Ford Bridge, also known as Ripley County Bridge #173, is a historic stone arch bridge located in Center Township, Ripley County, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1908, and is a four-span, semicircular-arch bridge constructed of limestone.”

Wikipedia article Straber Ford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Ripley 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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 550 N. over Otter Creek, Osgood, 47037
  • When was it listed? December 2009
  • Category. building
  • Township. Center township
  • National Register reference number. 09001132 - 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 Straber Ford Bridge: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schmaltz Ready-Mix ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Napoleon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South Eastern Materials Corp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this property

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osgood, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF0)Osgood$100,000The first tornadic damage was observed along U.S. Route 421 near Jan-Cen-Del Community Schools and extended northeast and then east before dissipating just north of State Road 350, just west of Finks Road. There were several areas that sustained straight line wind damage of similar wind magnitude outside of this path.||The first notable damage was broken tree branches and chimney damage along U.S. Highway 421 just west of the school. The tornado caused roof damage at the school and damaged other light objects around the school. A light pole in the athletic fields north of the school was also knocked down. Blowing debris also caused damage to some buses parked at the school.||Further east, the tornado traveled just north of State Route 350, where additional trees were either uprooted or snapped. Snapped trees resulted in substantial damage to an outbuilding in the 700 block of West State Route 350.||While additional damage of similar strength was observed along West Fairground Road and other locations to the north and east of Osgood, this damage was attributed to wind damage from the line of strong storms that swept through the area at the same time as the tornado.
July 2000Flash FloodOsgood$50,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding which washed out several roads between Osgood and Delaware.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindOsgood$30,000Numerous trees were downed across much of Ripley County, especially in the Holton, Osgood, Versailles and Milan areas.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOsgood$20,000Brief, strong winds caused minor damage to several buildings and major damage to the Indiana State Highway testing lab office.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOsgood$5,000A few trees and large limbs were downed. A fence was blown over at the Ripley County Fairgrounds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000A vehicle was damaged from blowing debris.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000A few trees were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000Several large trees were downed in the 500 block of Finks Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000Multiple trees were downed, blocking the road near Jac-Cen-Del High School.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000Trees were reported down west of Osgood due to thunderstorm winds. Power lines were also reported down east of Osgood.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindOsgood$3,000Trees were downed west of US Route 50 and east of Fairground Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOsgood$2,000A tree and some power lines were downed.
August 2021FloodOsgood$2,000High water was reported on a few roads near Versailles. A driver had to be pulled out of a vehicle stuck in high water on 300 W near U.S. 50.
January 2012FloodOsgood$2,000Street and basement flooding was reported in the area due to heavy rain.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOsgood$2,000Trees were reported down across the northern half of the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindOsgood$2,000Two trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOsgood$1,000A tree fell onto the roadway at State Route 350 and North Finks Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindOsgood$1,000A tree was knocked down on a power line between Osgood and Napoleon.
June 2008HailOsgood$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOsgood$500Several large limbs were downed just north of Jac-Cen-Del School.
February 2019FloodOsgood-High water was reported across Route 350.
June 2019Flash FloodOsgood-Several roads remained closed across the county due to flash flooding.
March 2017FloodOsgood-Very high water was lingering across the Osgood area.
July 2016FloodOsgood-Minor flooding was reported along West Fairgrounds Road east of Osgood.
August 2003Flash FloodOsgood-High water up to ten inches deep was flowing across US Route 421.
March 2011HailOsgood-no account filed
March 2011HailOsgood-no account filed
May 2011HailOsgood-no account filed
June 2011HailOsgood-no account filed
June 2011HailOsgood-no account filed
August 2003HailOsgood-no account filed
April 1995HailOsgood-no account filed
April 1995HailOsgood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Central House4.3 miles1982
Elias Conwell House4.4 miles1979
Otter Creek Covered Bridge5.0 miles2019
Versailles School and Tyson Auditorium7.8 miles2006
Tyson United Methodist Church7.9 miles1994
Versailles Courthouse Square Historic District7.9 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ripley CountyAll 17 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.