Ferdinand Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dubois County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by 1st Street on the south, Missouri Street on the west, 15th Street on the north, and Michigan Street on the east. Main Street includes extensions to the north and south., Ferdinand, 47532
When was it listed? November 2024
Category. district
Township. Ferdinand township
National Register reference number. 100011043 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

272 words

The chapter on Ferdinand Township in History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names Ferdinand. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

In 1868, paint was manufactured at Ferdinand from material found near the town. ' It was an excellent mineral paint, and its manufacture may some day be resumed. The paints and polishing powder of Ferdinand township have the highest endorsements of those who have used them, rivaling, and often surpassing, any others of this or foreign countries.

Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.

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 Ferdinand Township - 272 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ferdinand Historic District in 2001, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
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
6 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	I-64

Every fire recorded in Dubois County

Storms near this property

31 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferdinand, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 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
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage in and east of Ferdinand. The roof was blown off a processing plant. Several homes in the town sustained roof damage. A horse barn was destroyed east of town.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	$15,000	The Dubois County emergency manager estimated winds near 80 mph which brought down a utility pole on east 13th street.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	$15,000	The Dubois County emergency manager reported that a pole barn with its doors open was blown down.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	$10,000	Local law enforcement reported to the NWS that severe thunderstorm winds brought down power lines on a car.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	A light pole was down on Industrial Park Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	A tree fell across East Holiday Lake Road.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	There was a power line down on the 500 block of Maryland Street.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	Several trees were snapped. Two pines were snapped including one at the trunk. One large Maple tree snapped near the ground, and another large Maple tree was uprooted.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	A power line was down on the 2400 block of Willow Lane.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	State Road 264, north of Ferdinand, was impassable due to flooding.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	A tree was reported down on the roadway at 23rd Street and Main Street in Ferdinand.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	There was a report of a large tree down adjacent to a house near East Mariah Hill Road near Ferdinand.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	Trained spotters reported flash flooding in the area.
March 2016	Hail	Ferdinand	-	A trained spotter reported hail 1.25 inches in diameter.
April 2015	Flood	Ferdinand	-	The public reported high water on Interstate 64 that forced semi trailers off the road.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	An amateur radio operator reported that severe thunderstorm winds brought down a few trees and power poles in the area.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	The Dubois County emergency manager reported flooded roads in the area from excessive rainfall. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell from slow moving thunderstorms.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	A trained spotter reported to the NWS a measured 50 knot wind gust.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	Interstate 64 was down to one lane at the Ferdinand Exit due to high water on the road.
August 2008	Hail	Ferdinand	-	Quarter size hail was reported on the north side of Ferdinand.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	Numerous road in the county were closed due to high water. Old Huntinburg Road was closed in Bainbridge. Ferdinand Road was closed east of County Road 200W. Old Petersburg Road was closed north of State Road 56. Kellersville Road was closed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	Power lines and trees were downed along Interstate 64.
March 2012	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Ferdinand	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubois 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
St. Ferdinand Parish Historic District	0.2 miles	2020
Dr. Alois Wollenmann House	0.3 miles	2013
Convent Immaculate Conception Historic District	0.6 miles	1983
Huntingburg Commercial Historic District	7.1 miles	2006
Huntingburg Town Hall and Fire Engine House	7.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011043 in Record Group 79.
Dubois County	All 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.
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.
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.