Seller's Standard Station and Pullman Diner

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Seller's Standard Station and Pullman Diner is a historic service station and diner complex located in Morocco, Newton County, Indiana. The Pullman diner was built in 1930, and expanded about 1935 with the service station addition.”
Wikipedia article Seller's Standard Station and Pullman Diner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 & 103 N. Polk St., Morocco, 47963
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. building
Township. Beaver township
National Register reference number. 14000808 - 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 Seller's Standard Station and Pullman Diner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Newton Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morocco, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morocco	$20,000	A roof was blown off of a house on Meridian Road.
May 2023	Hail	Morocco	-	A report from mPING relayed 1.25 inch diameter hail in Morocco. Time was estimated based on radar.
July 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Morocco	-	Based upon drone imagery provided by the Newton County Emergency Management Agency, this tornado touched down in a field north of 400S Road at 500W Road west of Morocco. The tornado tracked to the east-southeast over mainly rural areas, damaging a few trees. This tornado left a narrow, convergent path of flattened corn over most of its track.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Morocco	-	Multiple tree limbs were blown down in Morocco and a brick chimney was blown down.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Morocco	-	A tree was blown down blocking County Road near Willow Flough.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Morocco	-	Trees were knocked down on 114th St.
August 2025	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed
February 1996	Hail	Morocco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
	Scott-Lucas House	0.5 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000808 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 6 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.