South Milford I.O.O.F. Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 8015 E 750 S, South Milford, 46795
When was it listed? March 2025
Category. building
Township. Milford township
National Register reference number. 100011482 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

594 words

This property stands in Milford Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 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 Milford Township - 594 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Milford I.O.O.F. Hall: 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Elmer's Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gunsaullus Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Henschen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Suever Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Varner Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wolcottville Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Milford, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	South Milford	-	Two trees in roadway.
April 2000	Hail	South Milford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaGrange 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	George and Margaret Wolcott House	4.9 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011482 in Record Group 79.
LaGrange County	All 10 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.