Story Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Elkinsville Rd. at IN 135, Story, 47448
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. district
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 100003500 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Story Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	WHITE
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Hoosier National Forest	FREEDOM
4 July 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	NEBO
9 April 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	HOUSTON NORTH
6 April 2011	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PRUITT
4 April 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Hoosier National Forest	1150N FIRE
20 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	13 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BROWN HOLLOW
2 April 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BERRY RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Story Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
	Brown County Native Stone Co Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Story, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Story	$5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto utility lines with 3 to 5-inch diameter branches broken off across State Road 135.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Story	$4,000	Several trees were downed across the southern part of the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Story	$1,000	This EF-0 rated tornado, with max wind speeds of 70 mph, was observed briefly touching down south of State Road 135 causing only minor tree damage.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Story	$500	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Story	-	Trees were downed.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Story	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Brown County State Park	3.4 miles	2020
Thomas A. Hendricks House and Stone Head Road Marker	3.7 miles	1984
Theodore Clement Steele House and Studio	7.0 miles	1973
Brown County Bridge No. 36	7.6 miles	1993
F.P. Taggart Store	7.8 miles	1983
Brown County Courthouse Historic District	7.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003500 in Record Group 79.
Brown County	All 9 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.
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.