BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tate-Tatum Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 1780 East Rayletown Rd., Sanders, 47401
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. district
- Township. Perry township
- National Register reference number. 100005874 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
8,019 wordsThis property stands in Perry Township. 1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 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 Perry Township - 8,019 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Tate-Tatum Farm between 1998 and 2018, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | CONSERVATION |
| 1 July 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Hoosier National Forest | KNIGHT RIDGE |
| 4 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | TRAILER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Tate-Tatum Farm: 12 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Stone Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| 4-R Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Acme Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Adams Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Ashtone Mill | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Beck Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Buffalo Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Independent Limestone Company | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Maple Hill Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Monarch Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanders, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanders | $40,000 | A pole barn was destroyed, a dump truck tipped over, and numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Sanders | - | Golf ball sized hail fell at Lakeview Elementary School. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Joseph Mitchell House | 2.3 miles | 1986 |
| Stipp-Bender Farm | 2.3 miles | 2023 | |
| Carter-Randall-Parker House | 2.8 miles | 2018 | |
 | Woolery Stone Company | 4.3 miles | 2002 |
 | Vinegar Hill Historic District | 4.9 miles | 2005 |
| McDoel Historic District | 4.9 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005874 in Record Group 79. |
| Monroe County | All 48 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.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- 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.