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Photograph of Turkey Run State Park
Photograph by Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Turkey Run State Park

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“Turkey Run State Park, Indiana's second state park, is in Parke County in the west-central part of the state along State Road 47, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of U.S. 41.”

Wikipedia article Turkey Run State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Parke County · listed in 2019 · category: District · built in 1916.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMarshall$8,000Trees were down across roads around a neighborhood in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The power was out as well.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMarshall$6,000Several trees were downed on roads near Marshall due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000Power lines and tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2015FloodMarshall$1,500Water was flowing over roadways in Marshall due to heavy rainfall of 1.40 inches in 40 minutes.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall$1,000A tree was blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Wind gust was measured by a cooperative observer.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Eight to ten inch tree limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Trash dumpsters were also overturned.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Three foot tree limbs were off trees due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMarshall-A wind gust of 71 mph was measured at Marshall, and trees were downed at Rosedale.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1996HailMarshall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parke 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
Richard Lieber Log Cabin0.5 miles2001
Lusk Home and Mill Site1.0 miles1974
Narrows Bridge1.0 miles1978
Cox Ford Bridge1.1 miles1978
Wilkins Mill Bridge1.6 miles1978
William B. & Laura Guthrie House2.0 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke CountyAll 47 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.
  • 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.