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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hanover College Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Prospect Street, College Avenue, and Ball Drive, Hanover, 47243
- When was it listed? November 2024
- Category. district
- Township. Hanover township
- National Register reference number. 100011040 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hanover College Historic District between 2002 and 2010, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | HANOVER HILL |
| 2 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 March 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 February 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hanover College Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Materials Div Ls Quarry | Magnesite | Past Producer | ||
| Jefferson Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $20,000 | The public reported downed trees on some homes. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $20,000 | A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that severe thunderstorm winds brought down trees and damaged roofs in the area. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Tree branches were blown through windows in homes. A small occupied travel trailer was blown two feet. No one was injured and there was no damage to the trailer. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Siding was blown off several homes. Hail was also reported with this event, but the size was undetermined. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | There were reports of flooding along State Road 56 between Hanover and Madison. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Hanover | - | Dime sized hail was observed near the intersection of Thornton Road and Sycamore Drive in Hanover. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Hanover | - | Golf ball sized hail fell in Hanover. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trained spotters reported trees down in the area. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trained spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The public reported trees down in the area. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The Jefferson County emergency manager reported to the NWS that several trees were down in the Hanover area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | A spotter in Hanover reported that a power pole was broken in half. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The roof of Southwest High School in Hanover was damaged, with several large sections of sheet metal blown off. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Ham Radio operator measured a 70 mph wind gust in Hanover. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees were downed. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees down |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thomas A. Hendricks Library | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Crowe-Garritt House | 0.5 miles | 1980 |
 | St. Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.9 miles | 2000 |
| Lanier Mansion | 4.2 miles | 1994 | |
 | Crawford-Whitehead-Ross House | 4.4 miles | 1992 |
 | Charles L. Shrewsbury House | 4.4 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011040 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 14 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.