Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
“Josephus Atkinson Farm, also known as the Charles D. Wellington Farm, is a historic home and farm located in Clinton Township, Cass County, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Josephus Atkinson Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Clinton Township. History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Clinton Township - 1,053 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Josephus Atkinson Farm: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sphalerite Occurrence Z76 | Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Sphalerite | |
| Engineering Aggregates Corp. Plt. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Logansport Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Logansport Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Logansport Sand & Gravel Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clymers, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clymers | $15,000 | Emergency manager reports downed power lines. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clymers | $10,000 | Tree down onto a garage. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clymers | $5,000 | Five homes slightly damaged and garage moved off foundation. Trees down throughout town. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Clymers | - | Emergency management officials reported mainly pea size hail, with a few hail stones as large as pennies. |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pleasant Hill Church | 2.3 miles | 1996 |
 | Point Historic District | 5.5 miles | 1999 |
 | Bankers Row Historic District | 5.5 miles | 1999 |
 | Courthouse Historic District | 5.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Pollard-Nelson House | 5.9 miles | 1975 |
 | Kendrick-Baldwin House | 5.9 miles | 1982 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000373 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cass County | All 16 listed properties in this county. |
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