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Photograph of Cedar Grove Bridge
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cedar Grove Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Cedar Grove Bridge, also known as Indiana State Bridge #6625B, was a historic Camelback Pratt Through Truss bridge spanning the Whitewater River in Cedar Grove and Highland Township, Franklin County, Indiana. The bridge had two spans and was built in 1914.”

Wikipedia article Cedar Grove Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Old IN 1 over Whitewater R., Cedar Grove, 47012
  • When was it listed? September 2014
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Highland township
  • National Register reference number. 14000801 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Bridge: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harrison Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Flash FloodCedar Grove$50,000A culvert and a portion of Richland Creek Road were washed out.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCedar Grove$10,000The walls of a large barn collapsed.
January 2000Flash FloodCedar Grove$10,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding across roads.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCedar Grove$1,000Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2018Flash FloodCedar Grove-At least 12 roads were reported closed across the county.
April 2017Flash FloodCedar Grove-A portion of River Road was washed over by high water.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Little Cedar Grove Baptist Church3.2 miles1990
Salmon Turrell Farmstead4.7 miles2009
Snow Hill Covered Bridge5.1 miles1995
Franklin County Seminary5.8 miles1974
Hermitage, The5.9 miles2004
Brookville Historic District6.1 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000801 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 13 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.