BlockFrom the record
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2025 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lockport Wabash River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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. North County Road 300 North over Wabash River, Lockport, 46923
- When was it listed? March 2025
- Category. structure
- Township. Adams township
- National Register reference number. 100011480 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
182 wordsThe chapter on Adams Township in History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names Lockport. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
1835. Lockport was the only village in the township. It was located on the Wabash and Erie canal, and for many years a large amount of business was transacted at this place. John Newman built a saw-mill on Rattlesnake creek in 1834. and a few years later added a flouring-mill. A number of saw-mills were built by various persons.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
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 Adams Township - 182 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $3,000 | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $2,000 | Trees of unknown size downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | $2,000 | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lockport | - | Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Lockport | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Burris House and Potawatomi Spring | 0.4 miles | 1977 |
 | Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100 | 0.7 miles | 2002 |
| Little Rock Creek Stone Arch Bridge | 0.7 miles | 2021 | |
 | District School No. 3 | 3.0 miles | 1988 |
 | Carrollton Bridge | 5.5 miles | 2003 |
 | Camden Masonic Temple | 6.1 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011480 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.
- 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.