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Meshingomesia (Mihsiinkweemisa) Cemetery and Indian School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Meshingomesia Cemetery and Indian School Historic District is a historic Indian school, cemetery, and national historic district located in Pleasant Township, Grant County, Indiana. This site was historically used for a variety of purposes including education, recreation, cultural, civic and government, and ceremonial.”
Wikipedia article Meshingomesia Cemetery and Indian School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3820 Co. Rd. 600 N., Jalapa, 46940
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. district
Township. Pleasant township
National Register reference number. 12001149 - 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

8,751 words

This property stands in Pleasant Township. History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 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 Pleasant Township - 8,751 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 Meshingomesia (Mihsiinkweemisa) Cemetery and Indian School Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
	Jalapa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Mcginnis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jalapa, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
March 2024	Hail	Jalapa	$1,000	no account filed
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Jalapa	-	Tree down across road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jalapa	-	A trained spotter recorded a 58 mph gust on State Road 15 at the Grant and Wabash county line.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jalapa	-	The public reported power lines down at County Road 400 North and 300 West.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Jalapa	-	Trees down.
May 2019	Hail	Jalapa	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Jalapa	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Jalapa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Woodside	4.7 miles	1997
Aaron Swayzee House	6.6 miles	1983
J. Woodrow Wilson House	6.7 miles	1988
Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence	6.9 miles	1990
Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District	6.9 miles	1994
First Presbyterian Church	7.0 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 23 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.