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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Elkhart County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Log Cabin Inn Tourist Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 68306 US 33, Benton, 46526
- When was it listed? June 2019
- Category. building
- Township. Benton township
- National Register reference number. 100004041 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Log Cabin Inn Tourist Camp: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart County Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elkhart Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benton, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | $50,000 | A trained spotter reported several power flashes and power outages in the area. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Benton | $50,000 | An off duty NWS employee witnessed a circulation touch down in an open field on West Lincoln Street, west of County Road 33 and move east southeast. The tornado's main structural impact occurred to a barn on the 15000 block of County Road 42. The owner of the barn witnessed the roof being picked up and carried into a nearby neighbor's yard (DI: SBO DOD: 6). The circulation then proceeded across the Timber Ridge Golf Course and began to turn more southeastward, causing extensive damage to over 200 trees on the course and then striking a large grove of 40 year old pine trees at a residence in the 12000 block of County Road 44. The final signs of the circulation were then found over an open field northwest of County Road 46 and State Route 13. Maximum winds are estimated at 100 mph. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | $35,000 | Photo on Twitter of a large barn with one wall collapsed and a partial roof collapse. Trusses are still standing on one-quarter of the roof. Barn door in the photo is open or missing. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | $30,000 | A two foot diameter tree was down. Powerlines down. Rail car tops were flipped over. |
| February 2008 | Flash Flood | Benton | $10,000 | An off duty NWS employee reported eight to twelve inches of fast flowing water over roadways just east of Benton, around County Road 44 and 33. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | Recorded at the Goshen Airport. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | Uprooted tree reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | A NWS survey of a concentrated area of damage confirmed a microburst occurred with winds estimated upwards of 70 mph. Several trees were snapped and large tree limbs blown down between CR 44 and 46. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | The Automated Weather Observation System at the Goshen airport recorded at 58 mph wind gust. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Benton | - | The public posted a picture on Facebook of quarter size hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | The public reported four to six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | An off duty NWS employee reported large tree limbs were blown down. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | An off duty NWS employee reported estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Benton | - | A brief EF-0 tornado touched down just west of CR 133 south of US-6 in southeast Elkhart county. The tornado caused minor structural damage to two homes, snapped limbs of multiple trees, and flattened corn in a field before lifting roughly one minute and one tenth of a mile east northeast of where the tornado touched down. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Benton | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William N. Violett House | 4.7 miles | 1984 |
 | Dierdorff Farmstead | 4.7 miles | 2011 |
 | Violett-Martin House and Gardens | 5.0 miles | 2007 |
 | Goshen Historic Distriict | 6.7 miles | 1983 |
 | Goshen Carnegie Public Library | 6.8 miles | 1983 |
 | Elkhart County Courthouse | 7.0 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004041 in Record Group 79. |
| Elkhart County | All 39 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.