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Georgetown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Georgetown Historic District is a national historic district located in Georgetown, Floyd County, Indiana. The district includes 163 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Georgetown.”

Wikipedia article Georgetown Historic District (Georgetown, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 Georgetown Historic District: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Fluorite Occurrence #1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence #1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this property

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash 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
May 2004Tornado (F1)Georgetown$500,000The tornado fist touched down near Georgetown in extreme western Floyd County. It moved east southeast nearly parallel to Indiana Highway 64. The tornado lifted near the Highway 64 interchange with Interstate 64, near Edwardsville. It reached its maximum intensity in the vicinity of Georgetown, where some F1 roof damage was noted. The tornado damaged approximately 25 homes in the Georgetown and Edwardsville areas, but most remained habitable. There was extensive damage to a few commercial buildings and businesses. There was extensive tree damage along Indiana Highway 64 between Georgetown and Edwardsville.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown$20,000Local media reported roof damage to a horse paddock due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2006LightningGeorgetown$5,000A house was set on fire by a lightning strike. Damage was unspecified.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown$5,000A large tree was down across a mobile home along state road 64, while several other trees were done in the Georgetown area.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown$500no account filed
December 2025Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-A tree fell on power lines.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Georgetown-The National Weather Service in Louisville conducted a damage assessment survey of a tornado that started at a property off of Hidden Springs Drive in far eastern Harrison County, Indiana and ended near Watts Road, just south of Georgetown, in Floyd County. Video clearly showed the tornado touching down multiple times. In Harrison County the tornado was rated EF1, but in Floyd County it was rated EF0. ||As the tornado crossed Georgetown County Line Road into Floyd County, there was an uptick in how widespread the damage was, and the damage was slightly more impressive with a few large branches being snapped.||Between Old Lanesville Road and Georgetown Lanesville Road, scattered tree damage continued with a large tree being uprooted. Several compromised trees were brought down too. An eyewitness that was on Georgetown Lanesville Road during the storm said she saw a finger of a tornado touch down at a house on that road before lifting. She didn't see the tornado touch down again. ||The last of the damage was found off of Watts Road. A house just west of the road had damage to its gutter covers. Just east of the road, minor tree damage was observed.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-A tree was blown down on Hamby Road near the intersection with Cooks Mill Road.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Georgetown-At 3424 Hamby Road, several trees were snapped and uprooted. Trees were facing from the east northeast to a southeasterly direction. Branches from the trees were scattered from the northeast to the southeast direction. An outbuilding had some siding and gutter damage. Of particular note was a large, healthy red oak tree that was uprooted with a significant root ball, which hit the far corner of the neighbor's house, doing structural damage to the roof and gutters. | The vast majority of the damage was to the trees, and just off the ground. The tornado topped a few trees at the edge of their property by the forested area, before lifting. Wind speeds of 90 mph were estimated, with a width of 100 yards, across this very short tornado track.
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Georgetown-The tornado first touched down on the northwest portion of the Brookside subdivision (near the eastern portion of Georgetown Lake), with a couple larger branches of two older compromised trees twisted off. The Brookside subdivision is located just south of Indiana Route 64 and just east of Baylor Wissman Rd. There were over a dozen homes sustaining shingle, soffit, gutter, and fascia damage with many tarps on roofs. Shingles were thrown from an east northeasterly direction to a east southeasterly direction. There was little if any tree damage inside the subdivision, with one playground lifted and thrown into a fence. Drone photography showed the vast majority of the damage was to shingles and to soffits. The damage was estimated to be EF0 with 80 mph winds. The last damage point was in a wooded area just east of Zachary Trail before interstate 64. One tree was topped in that grove of trees.
August 2022Flash FloodGeorgetown-State Road 64 was shut down due to water flowing over the roadway.
April 2017FloodGeorgetown-State officials reported many roads still impassable across the county. The hardest hit area was Georgetownn and Greenville area where a swift water rescue was reported.
May 2016HailGeorgetown-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
April 2015FloodGeorgetown-State officials reported high water flowing over numerous roads in the county. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell, the highest amounts across the northern portions.
April 2013HailGeorgetown-The public reported 1 inch hail near Georgetown.
April 2011Heavy RainGeorgetown-A CoCoRaHS spotter reported 2.83 inches of rain with 0.51 inches falling in 20 minutes.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Several trees fell across Georgetown. Fallen power lines briefly closed Kepley and Cook's Mill Roads.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Winds of 45-50 mph sustained with estimated gusts to 60 mph were observed with the gust front ahead of the storms. The leading edge of the storm had a pronounced curve.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees were downed in Georgetown.
September 2009Flash FloodGeorgetown-Two vehicles were stuck in water on Greenville Road and water rescues were performed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees were reported down in the Georgetown area, resulting in downed utility lines and several power transformers blown.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees were downed.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Georgetown-Indiana State Police reported a tornado on the ground along Interstate 64 south of Georgetown. The tornado was on the ground intermittently for nearly four miles, until reaching the Edwardsville area. It uprooted some very large trees near Edwardsville, just east of Highway 62. There was no structural damage to buildings along the highway.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Trees and power lines reported down on Old Hill Road 15 miles northwest of Louisville. Reported by spotter.
June 2023HailGeorgetown-no account filed
June 2023HailGeorgetown-no account filed
April 2017HailGeorgetown-no account filed
April 2017HailGeorgetown-no account filed
April 2012HailGeorgetown-no account filed
April 2006HailGeorgetown-no account filed
April 2006HailGeorgetown-no account filed
November 2002HailGeorgetown-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodGeorgetown-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Beard-Kerr Farm1.3 miles2012
Charles and Elletha Frederick House4.2 miles2022
Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church5.3 miles2004
Jersey Park Farm5.6 miles1984
Woodbine6.6 miles1994
Pike Inn, Old7.8 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12001148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd CountyAll 25 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.