Edna Collings Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 2024 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. County Road 450 North over Little Walnut Creek., Clinton Falls, 46135
When was it listed? May 2024
Category. structure
Township. Clinton township
National Register reference number. 100010372 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

1,268 words

The chapter on Clinton Township in Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887 names Clinton Falls. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

In Clinton Township there are three postoffice towns: Portland Mills, Morton and Clinton Falls. The first named is an old town, and is so situated that a part of it is in Clinton and a part in Russell Township, Putnam County, and a part in each of two townships in Parke County.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887.

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 Clinton Township - 1,268 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 2 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
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton Falls	$20,000	A carport was blown on its side and metal was ripped from several homes in the Van Bibbler Lake area due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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

5 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
James Edington Montgomery O'Hair House	5.8 miles	1992
Brick Chapel United Methodist Church	5.8 miles	2003
Dunbar Covered Bridge	6.8 miles	2024
Oakalla Covered Bridge	7.7 miles	2024
Alfred Hirt House	7.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010372 in Record Group 79.
Putnam County	All 33 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.
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.