Stipp-Bender Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss, 6 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5075 South Victor Pike, Clear Creek, 47403
When was it listed? May 2023
Category. building
Township. Perry township
National Register reference number. 100009014 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

8,019 words

This 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

62 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Stipp-Bender Farm between 2003 and 2008, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	23
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Natural	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Stipp-Bender Farm: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bloomington Limestone	Stone	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
Carl Furst Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Independent Limestone Company	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Maple Hill Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clear Creek, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
June 2019	Flash Flood	Clear Creek	$40,000	Water was flowing over several roads in southern Bloomington due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. There were several reports of cars stranded in flooded waters.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$15,000	Trees were reported down on the south side of Bloomington due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$7,000	Social media reports of trees down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in several locations in and around the Bloomington area, including near the 6500 block of South Old 37 Highway.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$5,000	Healthy trees and branches of unknown size were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$3,000	Several trees downed across road by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$1,250	Power lines were downed near this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report came in via social media.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clear Creek	$800	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down.
April 2026	Hail	Clear Creek	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Clear Creek	-	no account filed
March 2012	Funnel Cloud	Clear Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Carter-Randall-Parker House	1.3 miles	2018
Joseph Mitchell House	2.3 miles	1986
Tate-Tatum Farm	2.3 miles	2020
Woolery Stone Company	2.4 miles	2002
McDoel Historic District	3.5 miles	2021
Courthouse Square Historic District	3.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009014 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.