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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Dearborn County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Walker Hill Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 9939, 9925 and 9787 Hwy. 50, Aurora, 47001
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Washington township
- National Register reference number. 100012174 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walker Hill Farm between 2004 and 2005, burning about 4 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Storms near this property
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 6 flood, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Aurora | $250,000 | A small barn was totally destroyed, a 40 foot silo was damaged and several trees were downed. Four homes were heavily damaged in rural Dillsboro. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Aurora | $100,000 | Numerous reports of high water and flash flooding were received from the Aurora and Guilford areas. Several people and pets were stranded in Guilford due to rising water. Two vehicles were also swept away in the Guilford area after their occupants escaped. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $20,000 | A neighborhood near Aurora sustained structural damage to some homes and automobiles, as well as numerous trees being blown down, uprooted, or split. All of the damage was caused by straight-line winds estimated near 80 mph. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Aurora | $15,000 | A portion of Market Street in Aurora was ripped up due to flood waters. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Aurora | $5,000 | Numerous roads were flooded across the county. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Aurora | $5,000 | Numerous roads were flooded and closed. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $4,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $3,000 | A few trees were downed onto State Route 148. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $2,000 | Two trees were knocked down. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $2,000 | Power lines were downed. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $1,000 | A tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Aurora | $1,000 | Multiple roads were closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $1,000 | Large branches were broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | $250 | A few small trees were downed on Wilson Creek Road. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Aurora | - | High water was reported on the roadway near the intersection of State Route 148 and U.S. 50. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Aurora | - | U.S. 50 westbound in Aurora was blocked due to high water. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Aurora | - | One road was closed near the Ohio County line due to flooding. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Aurora | - | High water was reported over 1 1/2 lanes of Wilson Creek Road. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water. |
| March 2006 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | High water caused several road closures. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | An automobile was trapped when high water surged over a bridge. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | Laughery Creek Road was closed by high water. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rainfall caused roads to be closed across the southern part of the county. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Aurora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lewis Hurlbert Sr. House | 5.6 miles | 1994 |
 | Downtown Aurora Historic District | 5.7 miles | 1994 |
 | Veraestau | 5.7 miles | 1973 |
 | Hillforest (Forest Hill) | 5.7 miles | 1971 |
 | Dr. George Sutton Medical Office Building | 5.7 miles | 1994 |
 | Aurora Methodist Episcopal Church | 5.8 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012174 in Record Group 79. |
| Dearborn County | All 26 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.