The Maples Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 5639 US Highway 150, West Baden Springs, 47454
When was it listed? March 2026
Category. building
Township. French Lick township
National Register reference number. 100012768 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of The Maples Farm between 2001 and 2018, burning about 70 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 July 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	270 WEST
27 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CASINO
2 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	AIRPORT
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Hoosier National Forest	STEVENS SAWMILL
24 March 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	WEST BADEN RESTART
17 March 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	STEVENS FIRE
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PROSPECT
19 February 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TAN DOG

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of The Maples Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Cave Quarries, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Orange 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

6 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
Homestead Hotel	2.7 miles	1998
First Baptist Church	2.7 miles	1994
Oxford Hotel	2.7 miles	2001
West Baden National Bank	2.7 miles	1993
Dixie Garage	2.8 miles	2001
West Baden Springs Hotel	2.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012768 in Record Group 79.
Orange County	All 18 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.