Toner Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Toner Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburgh, Indiana. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Edinburgh.”
Wikipedia article Toner Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. E Main Cross from the CSX tracks to White Oak Ln, Edinburgh, 46124
When was it listed? March 2011
Category. district
Township. Blue River township
National Register reference number. 11000127 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

23,461 words

This property stands in Blue River Township. A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, published 1881; History of Johnson County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc. Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1888 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 Blue River Township - 23,461 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Toner Historic District: 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jefferson Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Shelby Gravel, Edinburg Div.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edinburgh, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Edinburgh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

3 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
Edinburgh Commercial Historic District	0.3 miles	1991
South Walnut Street Historic District	0.4 miles	2011
Furnas Mill Bridge	2.8 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 22 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.