Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
“McCall Family Farmstead is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located in Bogard Township, Daviess County, Indiana. The house was built about 1883, and is a two-story, frame I-house with a rear ell.”
Wikipedia article McCall Family Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Daviess County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Bogard Township. History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, 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 Bogard Township - 6,788 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McCall Family Farmstead: 1 past producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainville, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 flood, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $20,000,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Daviess County, including near Edwardsport, due to heavy rain and a breach in a levee. A levee just downstream of Elnora blew out and sandbags were scattered more than a half mile downstream. |
| March 2006 | Flood | Plainville | $100,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $20,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Daviess County due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $20,000 | A garage roof was removed, and a chimney and home roof were damaged. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $15,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in western Daviess County due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 8th at 1630. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $15,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in western Daviess County due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $15,000 | A tree fell on a house in Plainville and caused roof and gutter damage. Another tree fell on a garage damaging two sides of the building. This damage was due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| January 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $10,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Daviess County due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $10,000 | Excessive rainfall along the White River caused flooding in Daviess county. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Plainville | $5,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in western Daviess County due to heavy rain. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $5,000 | Trees were blown down along highway 57 from Plainville to Elnora in northern Daviess County. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Plainville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,500 | A tree and some limbs were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,000 | Power lines were downed. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $1,000 | Trees downed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | $500 | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in Daviess County, including near Edwardsport in Knox County, due to heavy rain. It affected most bottomlands and some county roads. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Flooding occurred along the White River west of Plainville of Daviess County, along the river across from Edwardsport in neighboring Knox County. Flooding continued into May, with the river cresting then. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Flooding occurred along the White River west of Plainville of Daviess County, along the river across from Edwardsport in neighboring Knox County. The river crested 5.7 feet above flood stage at the Edwardsport river gauge on April 11th at a reading of 20.7 feet. A river level of 20 feet typically occurs about once a year and affects agricultural land and a few roads or so...state, county, and local. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of low lying agricultural land on the White River during late December and very early January, affecting Knox County at and near the Edwardsport river gage. This flood event is a continuation from December. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Flooding of bottomlands occurred along the White River west of Plainville of Daviess County, along the river across from Edwardsport in neighboring Knox County. Flooding continued from April. The river crested at 19 feet on May 5th. Flood stage is 15 feet. Crop damage estimate is grossly estimated. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | The beginnings of a flood occurred a few miles east of Plainville, Indiana along the White River. The river crested 0.6 feet above flood stage on May 10th at a reading of 15.6 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically means the river has expanded into low agricultural fields and Daviess County Road 375 WN is flooded. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Plainville | - | Extensive flooding of bottomlands occurred along the White River approximately 5 miles west of Plainville, Indiana, in the vicinity of Edwardsport, Indiana of neighboring Knox County. The river crested 7.6 feet above flood stage on May 18th at a reading of 22.6 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects local/county/state roads, agricultural land, and surrounds river cabins. Damage costs are grossly estimated. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Plainville | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in western Daviess County due to heavy rain. This flooding is a continuation from March flooding that began on March 18th at 2200. March flood damage estimates are around fifteen thousand dollars. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Plainville | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December lead to flooding of low lying agricultural land on the White River during late December and very early January, affecting Daviess County at and near the Edwardsport river gage. This flood event continued into January. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Plainville | - | Law enforcement reported quarter size hail at the intersection of SR 57 and CR 800 N. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Plainville | - | no account filed |
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.
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000721 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Daviess County | All 11 listed properties in this county. |
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