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Campbell-Gill House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 8178 S. IN 335, New Pekin, 47165
  • When was it listed? August 2019
  • Category. building
  • Township. Pierce township
  • National Register reference number. 100004365 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

4,686 words

The chapter on Pierce Township in Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916 names New Pekin. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

At present the Church of Christ has good congregations at New Pekin ami College Hill. The Methodist churches at Pekin and Mt. Pleasant are in a prosperous condition, and the Missionary Bapti.sts hold regular services at Blue River.

Passage source: Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916.

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 Pierce Township - 4,686 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Campbell-Gill House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller Sand PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Pekin, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodNew Pekin-A camper was carried by flood waters and folded underneath a bridge on Shorts Corner Road.
July 2025Flash FloodNew Pekin-Water began to enter a house in New Pekin.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Flash FloodNew Pekin-State officials reported that an unusual amount of roads had high water running over them due to heavy rainfall, forcing them to be barricaded. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell on top of very saturated ground.
December 2015Flash FloodNew Pekin-Washington County law enforcement officials reported to the NWS that roads in and around Pekin were closed due to high water from excessive rainfall.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Local media relayed a report of an estimated 60 mph wind gust near New Pekin. Several trees were toppled in and around the town.
April 2014Flash FloodNew Pekin-Several intersections in New Pekin were briefly impassable due to high water.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-A spotter just south of New Pekin reported that three trees were uprooted.
March 2012HailNew Pekin-Baseball sized hail from the second of two supercells that affected New Pekin damaged many cars and buildings.
March 2012HailNew Pekin-This hail came from the second of two supercells that traversed essentially the same path.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-A trained spotter reported trees were blown down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees were reported down.
May 2011Flash FloodNew Pekin-The Blue River was out of its banks and flooded roads and bridges.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Several trees were downed along Daisy Line Road.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees were downed.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees down across southeast Washington County
June 2016HailNew Pekin-no account filed
March 2012HailNew Pekin-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Pekin-no account filed
May 2003HailNew Pekin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100004365 in Record Group 79.
Washington CountyAll 10 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.