Butler Community Mausoleum

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Butler Community Mausoleum is a historic mausoleum located in Butler Cemetery near Butler in Stafford Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1914, and is a one-story, limestone structure with a red tile roof and simple Classical Revival style detail.”
Wikipedia article Butler Community Mausoleum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 28 E., Butler, 46721
When was it listed? March 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Early Community Mausoleum Movement in Indiana MPS
Township. Stafford township
National Register reference number. 14000070 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

546 words

This property stands in Stafford Township. History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 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 Stafford Township - 546 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Butler Community Mausoleum: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hoffman Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weber Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	$750	Roof blown off porch of house.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto a residence.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and utility line down from Corunna to Butler.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Law enforcement officials reported multiple trees and tree limbs down, with some blocking roadways.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Trees reported down on State Route 1
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Law enforcement reported several trees down in Butler.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Butler	-	Several trees and power lines down.
June 2019	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Butler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Downtown Butler Historic District	1.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DeKalb County	All 29 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.