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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2022 · category: Structure · built in 1880, by Joseph Balsley.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bean Blossom Covered Bridge
Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Covered Bridge Rd. over Bean Blossom Cr., 7/10 mi. SW of jct. of IN 45 and 135, Bean Blossom, 46160
- When was it listed? February 2022
- Category. structure
- Township. Jackson township
- When was it built? 1880
- Architect. Joseph Balsley
- National Register reference number. 100007441 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bean Blossom Covered Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Brown County Courthouse Historic District | 3.7 miles | 1983 |
| Nashville Historic District | 3.7 miles | 2022 | |
 | F.P. Taggart Store | 3.7 miles | 1983 |
 | Brown County Bridge No. 36 | 6.0 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007441 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 9 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.