Wynkoop-Taylor-Swanson-Sharp Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3463 N. IN 39, La Porte, 46350
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. building
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 100001607 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wynkoop-Taylor-Swanson-Sharp Farmstead in 2008, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 April 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wynkoop-Taylor-Swanson-Sharp Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Laporte City Eng.	Stone	Producer

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
Pinehurst Hall	1.2 miles	1976
Downtown LaPorte Historic District	3.4 miles	1983
Scott-Rumley House	3.4 miles	2016
Francis H. Morrison House	3.8 miles	1984
William Orr House	4.0 miles	1984
Ames Family Homestead	4.0 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001607 in Record Group 79.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.