BlockFrom 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
Pine Bluff Covered Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
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 900 North over Big Walnut Creek., Bainbridge
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. structure
- Township. Jackson township
- National Register reference number. 100010375 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
1,152 wordsThis property stands in Jackson Township. Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887 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 Jackson Township - 1,152 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bainbridge, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Bainbridge | $100,000 | An F1 tornado near Bainbridge destroyed 3 metal barns and did minor to moderate damage to 2 homes. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | $50,000 | The Bainbridge Fire Department building was damaged due to damaging thunderstorm winds. The downburst winds lifted the overhang of the roof's west end and completely separated the roof from the walls. Tangled aluminum roof material was tossed northeast and insulation was splattered on the home just east of the firehouse. The department's radio antenna was also destroyed. Just south of the firehouse, across county road 700 North, a barn was destroyed by the high wind. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | $4,000 | A snapped tree, broken branch or branches, and a slightly damaged fence occurred near this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | $3,000 | Several reports of downed trees and power lines by thunderstorm wind gusts across northeastern Putnam County. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Bainbridge | $2,000 | Ponding of rain water covered US 36. Major flooding was in progress on Plum Creek. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | Thunderstorm produced marginally severe hail south of Bainbridge, before hail as large as pennies was reported towards Heritage Lake. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | One inch sized hail reported from the intersection of County Road 500 North and 150 East. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds knocked down trees across the northern sections of the county. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm wind damage. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bainbridge | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bainbridge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Stone Covered Bridge | 1.4 miles | 2024 | |
| Bainbridge Historic District | 2.8 miles | 2019 | |
 | Samuel Brown House | 3.1 miles | 2006 |
| Roachdale Historic District | 4.3 miles | 2020 | |
 | James Edington Montgomery O'Hair House | 6.8 miles | 1992 |
| Cornstalk Covered Bridge | 7.0 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010375 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.