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One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wagoner-Ayres House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 4565 East State Road 18, Flora, 46929
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Carrollton township
- National Register reference number. 100010377 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
133 wordsThis property stands in Carrollton Township. History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 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 Carrollton Township - 133 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
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 Wagoner-Ayres House: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this property
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flood | Flora | $125,000 | Between Flora and Delphi, Indiana several roads and bridges were badly damaged by flood water. Damage cost is grossly estimated. |
| May 2009 | Lightning | Flora | $100,000 | Abundant lightning strikes associated with a squall line apparently started a house fire at approximately 2223 EST in Flora, Indiana. Three occupants apparently were unable to escape and perished in the fire. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Flora | $70,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $17,000 | Numerous reports of a downed transformer, downed power lines, and downed trees around the Flora area due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A roof was also blown off a chicken coop. Power was out in Flora at the time of observation. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a building and downed trees and utility lines. Estimated damage cost is very rough. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $15,000 | A pole barn was destroyed. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down by thunderstorm wind gusts across Carroll County. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. This event was relayed via broadcast media. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location, just north of Flora. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Wind gust was measured by a trained spotter. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Trees were downed. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Flora | - | The Carroll County Sheriff reported very high water on at least two roads in Flora. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Police vehicle was almost blown off the road by an estimated 60 mph wind. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Flora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sycamore Row | 4.7 miles | 2023 | |
| Sycamore Row | 4.9 miles | 2023 | |
| American House Hotel | 4.9 miles | 2018 | |
 | Adams Mill Covered Bridge | 5.8 miles | 1996 |
 | Adams Mill | 5.9 miles | 1984 |
| Meridian Line Road Iron Truss Bridge | 5.9 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010377 in Record Group 79. |
| Carroll County | All 37 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.
- 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.