Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“Rensselaer Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Rensselaer, Indiana. It encompasses 37 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and three contributing objects in the central business district of Rensselaer.”
Wikipedia article Rensselaer Courthouse Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
National Register reference number.12000185- 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.
Mines and
quarries near this property
5 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Rensselaer Courthouse Square Historic District: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rensselaer, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 tornado, 2 flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Multiple empty grain bins and outbuildings were destroyed across four farmsteads with large paths of debris thrown two miles downstream. Utility poles were blown down along with dozens of trees that were snapped. Maximum winds were estimated to 100 mph.
Several grain bins were knocked down. Trees and power lines were blown down on the east side of Rensselaer. Roof damage occurred to several businesses and outbuildings.
A tornado touched down along Sparling Road halfway between Schuster and Mt. Calvary Roads. The tornado moved northeast across southeastern portions of Rensselaer. A truck was overturned near Route 231 and and Drexel. Power lines, tree limbs and shingles were blown down. The tornado lifted near Highway 114, just east of the high school.
A tornado touched down near County Road 400E and 200S destroying a garage and damaging the corner of a roof of a barn. The tornado continued through corn and bean fields and exited Jasper County 12 miles east of Rensselaer and moved into Pulaski County. (See Storm Data for Indiana, Northeast)
Widespread tree and power line damage was reported throughout Rensselaer with numerous large trees blown down. Many trees were snapped several feet above ground. At least one car was damaged by a fallen tree limb. A 25 foot tall tree was uprooted at the courthouse. Roofing material was blown off buildings in downtown.
The coop observer in Rensselaer reported streeting flooding in parts of the city. Rainfall from midnight to 7 am was 1.34 inches with 2.20 additional inches falling between 7 am and 930 am.
Heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms moved across the southern portion of the county, and accumulated around 2 inches of rain in and around Rensselaer. No major flooding was reported.
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.
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.
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