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Photograph of Enoco Coal Mine
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Enoco Coal Mine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Enoco Coal Mine, also known as the Knox County Coal Company, is a historic Bituminous coal mine located in Washington Township, Knox County, Indiana. The facility was built in 1941 by the Knox Consolidated Coal Company and remained in use until 1962.”

Wikipedia article Enoco Coal Mine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. N Side of Grundman Rd, 1.5 mi S of Bruceville, Bruceville, 47516
  • When was it listed? December 2010
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 10001100 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Enoco Coal Mine: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Knox Materials, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruceville, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville$30,000Trees blocking roads across town, trees on powerlines and report of a tree on a home due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBruceville$30,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBruceville$25,000Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto a house.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBruceville$10,000Several trees and utility lines down throughout Knox County in the Bicknell, Bruceville, Edwardsport, and Vincennes areas due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Trees were reported down on or near Highway 41 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Trees were reported down on Old Highway 41, north of Vincennes and south of Oaktown, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off a structure in this location.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBruceville$4,000A tree and utility lines were downed by thunderstorm winds at State Road 550 near Vine Street.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBruceville$3,000Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville$2,000Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,500A tree and utility lines were downed on a house due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Tree downed at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts and was blocking the road. Numerous power outages noted in nearby areas.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000The Emergency Manager received a report of a tree being down near Bruceville due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was downed on Davis Road due to damaging thunderstorm gusts.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was downed at Camp Arthur Road and Smith Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some utility lines were also reported down around the county.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Power lines were reported down at 614 Main Street in Bruceville. This is located at State Route 550 on the northern end of town.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was reported down across Rod And Gun Club Road due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBruceville$500Two to three inch diameter tree reported down on US Highway 41 at Camp Arthur Road.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBruceville$500Trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
August 2023HailBruceville-A thunderstorm produced marginally-severe hail in Bruceville.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBruceville-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
March 2009FloodBruceville-Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in and near Vincennes, IN. The river crested 2.6 feet above flood stage at the Red Skelton Bridge (VINI3) river gauge on March 20th with a reading of 20.1 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects low lying agricultural land. River levels, and thus timing of flood, are estimated due to gauge malfunction.
March 2009FloodBruceville-Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in and near Vincennes, IN. The river crested 2.68 feet above flood stage at the Vincennes (VCNI3) river gauge on March 20th with a reading of 18.68 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects low lying agricultural land.
April 2006Flash FloodBruceville-Water was flowing over Highway 67 in several places. No property damage was reported.
March 2026HailBruceville-no account filed
April 2001HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1998HailBruceville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBruceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shadowwood2.4 miles2001
Simpson Nursery Historic District4.7 miles2021
Gregg Park5.8 miles2013
Mont Clair5.9 miles2016
Kimmell Park6.1 miles2013
Hack and Simon Office Building6.7 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10001100 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knox CountyAll 19 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.