Waterloo Community Mausoleum

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Waterloo Community Mausoleum is a historic mausoleum located in Maplewood Cemetery in Waterloo, Indiana. It was built in 1916, and is a one-story, rectangular limestone structure with simple Classical Revival-style detail and Gothic buttresses.”
Wikipedia article Waterloo 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. N. Center St., Waterloo, 46793
When was it listed? March 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Early Community Mausoleum Movement in Indiana MPS
Township. Grant township
National Register reference number. 14000072 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

1,203 words

The chapter on Grant Township in History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 names Waterloo. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Four and a half miles north of Auburn is located the town of Waterloo, in Grant township. The town was formerly in Union township, but upon the division of the latter, the place fell within the bounds of the new township of Grant. Two branches of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad meet at Waterloo, making the town important as a shipping center. In 1890 the town had a population of one thousand four hundred and seventythree; in 1900, one thousand two hundred and forty-four; and in 1910, one thousand one hundred and sixty seven.

Passage source: History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914.

The first settlement near the present site of Waterloo was made near Cedar creek, northeast, and was called Uniontown; it is now a mere suburb to Waterloo. Wesley Park erected a board shanty on the site of Uniontown in 1838 as a shelter for two men who were building a bridge over Cedar creek at that point. In November, 1838, D. Altenburg and L. Walsworth and their families, together with the two bridge builders, passed a night while the settlers were on their way from Steubenville to their selections of land in Union township.

Passage source: History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914.

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 Grant Township - 1,203 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo Community Mausoleum between 2002 and 2004, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 April 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 November 2004	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 November 2004	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 October 2002	Recreation and ceremony	35 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

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 Waterloo Community Mausoleum: 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bailey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Brand Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterloo, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	1 hurt	Emergency management officials reported a empty semi trailer was blown off the road by high winds on Interstate 69, near mile marker 334. The driver sustained minor injuries.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	1 hurt	Emergency management officials reported a empty semi trailer was blown off the road by high winds on Interstate 69, near mile marker 334. The driver sustained minor injuries.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$3,000	HAM radio operator reported roof blown off house near Waterloo.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	-	A spotter recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	-	Tree limbs were reported down across some roads in the area, causing brief closures and some power outages in the Waterloo area.
June 2006	Hail	Waterloo	-	Ashley is located on the Steuben and Deklab county line.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	-	Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Waterloo.
July 2005	Hail	Waterloo	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Waterloo	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Waterloo	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	-	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

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
Dekalb County Home and Barn	5.0 miles	1983
Eckhart Public Library and Park	5.4 miles	1981
Joseph Bowman Farmhouse	5.5 miles	1983
Auburn Community Mausoleum	5.7 miles	2014
Downtown Auburn Historic District	5.7 miles	1986
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Facility	5.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000072 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.