BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Fountain County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Veedersburg Clover Leaf Route Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 295 East 2nd St., Veedersburg, 47987
- When was it listed? August 2020
- Category. building
- Township. Van Buren township
- National Register reference number. 100005516 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
20,751 wordsThe chapter on Van Buren Township in History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881 names Veedersburg. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The second society of the United Brethren church holds its meetings in the Methodist Episcopal church at Sterling. This class proper is the one that formerly held its services in Chambersburg. It is prospecting for a new church building to be built in Veedersburg. The society is in an active working condition. The third society is at Stone Bluff. This society was organized at this place in 1860. The prominent members were Samuel Morgan and Francis Markham. The prosperity of the society has usually been good. It now has under progress of erection a new frame church 32x48, which, w lien completed, will be second to none in the township. The present trustees of this society are George Dice, Samuel Morgan, and John Simpson. It numbers fifty active members. The Sunday-school connected with the society is in a live condition.
Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.
The Christian Disciples. This order, under this name, first made its appearance in Van Buren township in 1835, at Cool Springs Church, where it remained a successful society till 1874, when it removed to Veedersburg, erecting at that place a handsome frame churchhouse at a cost of ยง2,000. Among its first prominent members are the names of Daniel Osborn, Isac Spinning, Aaron Death, John Jack, John Deth, Harvy Applegate, and William Osborn. A great part of these united, under the name of Disciples, at Cool Springs Church, in 1835. This society, now located at Veedersburg, is one of the most active in the township. Eev. Martin is the present ofiiciating clergyman. Prominent among its members are John McClure, Watson Clark, D. C. Smith, Oliver Osborn, E. M. Osborn, D. K. Smith, and Harvy Young. The society now has fifty members ; the Sunday-school has an attendance of 112.
Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.
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 Van Buren Township - 20,751 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
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 Veedersburg Clover Leaf Route Depot: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. A. Miller Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| F. I. Mitchell Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veedersburg, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Lightning | Veedersburg | 1 killed | A 24 year old male was hit by lightning on a baseball field and died shortly thereafter. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $350,000 | Large tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts on a house. Numerous other reports of downed trees across the county with over 2500 power outages. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed power poles on West Public Service Road and blew metal roofing into fields on both sides of US Highway 136, one-eighth to one-quarter mile west of Interstate 74 overpass. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $20,000 | Trees and utility lines were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Scattered reports came in from around the county of this type of damage. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $5,000 | Several trees, up to three feet in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $1,000 | Multiple large tree limbs downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Veedersburg | $1,000 | This EF-0 tornado, with a max wind speed of 75 mph, primarily went across cornfields while glancing two homesteads, where a few large tree branches were downed and one large trash dumpster blown over in a direction opposite from the environmental wind at the time. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $1,000 | Trees and power lines downed. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | A 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | This was a public report of an estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in this location. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Veedersburg | - | Movement of the funnel cloud was to the southeast. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | Trees were downed. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Veedersburg | - | State police reported a brief weak tornado touchdown in a field near Veedersburg. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Veedersburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veedersburg First Christian Church | 0.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Clinton F. Hesler Farm | 4.3 miles | 1989 |
 | Cades Mill Covered Bridge | 4.4 miles | 2021 |
 | William C. B. Sewell House | 7.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Carnegie Library of Covington | 7.4 miles | 1989 |
 | Covington Residential Historic District | 7.4 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005516 in Record Group 79. |
| Fountain County | All 19 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.