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Photograph of Ulen Historic District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ulen Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Ulen Historic District, also known as Country Club Addition, is a national historic district located at Ulen, Indiana. The district encompasses 53 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 4 contributing objects in an upscale suburban area near Indianapolis and next to the Ulen Country Club and golf course.”

Wikipedia article Ulen Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

The ground it stands on

705 words

This property stands in Center Township. Early Life and Times in Boone County Indiana, published 1861; History of Boone 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 Center Township - 705 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulen, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindUlen$1,000A two foot diameter, healthy tree was downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindUlen-A 72 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in this location.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindUlen-A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to be as high as 70 MPH.
May 2023HailUlen-no account filed
March 2011HailUlen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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

5 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
Strange Nathanial Cragun House1.2 miles2011
Lebanon Courthouse Square Historic District1.3 miles2016
Boone County Courthouse1.3 miles1986
Oak Hill Cemetery1.3 miles2014
Scotland Bridge7.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000591 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone 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.
  • 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.