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Photograph of Central Batesville Historic District
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Central Batesville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Central Batesville Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesville, Indiana. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings and three contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Batesville.”

Wikipedia article Central Batesville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Ripley 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

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 Central Batesville Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Batesville Clay Mine & PlantClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Batesville, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 6 hail, 5 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2009Flash FloodBatesville$20,000Portions of Interstate 74 were flooded near Batesville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBatesville$17,000A roof was blown off of a business and a few trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindBatesville$15,000Several trees and power lines were downed across northern portions of Ripley County.
June 1995HailBatesville$15,000Golf ball-size hail shattered the windshields of some automobiles.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBatesville$10,000A power pole and lines were downed.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBatesville$10,000A few structures sustained minor siding damage.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBatesville$10,000no account filed
April 2006HailBatesville$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailBatesville$8,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBatesville$6,000Trees were blown down in the northern part of the city.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBatesville$5,000Several trees were downed in the Batesville area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBatesville$5,000Several trees were downed along I-74 between mile markers 149 and 153.
June 2021Flash FloodBatesville$5,000Numerous roads were closed around Batesville. One water rescue was needed for a motorist who was stranded in their vehicle.
August 2009Flash FloodBatesville$5,000Roads were reported flooded around the Batesville area.
March 2008FloodBatesville$5,000Roads were flooded countywide.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBatesville$4,000Several trees were downed. One house had some siding damaged.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBatesville$3,000A large tree, about one foot in diameter, was downed across a roadway. The tree knocked down several power lines.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBatesville$3,000A large limb was downed onto power lines.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBatesville$3,000A large tree at a golf club was downed onto power lines.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBatesville$3,000Numerous large limbs downed.
September 2016Flash FloodBatesville$2,000Evacuations were necessary at a retirement community when water started to enter some buildings.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBatesville$2,000Numerous trees were downed along Route 229.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindBatesville$2,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBatesville$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBatesville$1,000A tree was downed near State Route 229 and County Road 1300 North.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBatesville$1,000A large tree was downed across State Route 229 and Huntsville Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBatesville$1,000A tree was downed onto a portion of Interstate 74.
August 2013Flash FloodBatesville$1,000Law enforcement responded to high water reports on roadways in the northern portions of Ripley County due to heavy rainfall.
March 2026FloodBatesville-Areas of high water were reported over the roadway between E County Road 1400 N and IN-229.
May 2024Flash FloodBatesville-High water was reported on roads along Little Laughery Creek.
July 2021FloodBatesville-High water was reported on several roads in northern Ripley County.
February 2018FloodBatesville-Minor street flooding was reported.
February 2016FloodBatesville-A couple of inches of water was flowing across area roads.
September 2016Flash FloodBatesville-State Route 46 was nearly impassable due to water flowing across it.
August 2016Heavy RainBatesville-Minor street flooding and drainage issues were reported near the city of Batesville.
August 2016Heavy RainBatesville-Part of Huntersville Road was closed due to high water.
March 2011HailBatesville-no account filed
March 2010HailBatesville-no account filed
March 2010HailBatesville-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindBatesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000659 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ripley CountyAll 17 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.