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

Cromwell Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Cromwell Historic District is a national historic district located at Cromwell, Indiana. The district encompasses 33 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Cromwell.”

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

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 Cromwell Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Kimmell Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cromwell, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Trees were reported down by trained spotters.
November 2017Flash FloodCromwell-Two to three inches of rain fell in a short period of time onto already saturated ground. Spotter reports and video footage showed water to the depth of a foot or more flowing in spots along several roadways in and around Cromwell, Kimmel and Albion. This included a portion of US 33 near State Route 5, northeast of Cromwell.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Report of a tree down near Cromwell.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCromwell-An off duty NWS employee reported trees down southwest of Cromwell.
April 2003HailCromwell-no account filed
March 2003HailCromwell-no account filed
April 2001HailCromwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Stone's Trace2.2 miles1984
Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple4.3 miles1983
Ligonier Historic District4.4 miles1987
Jacob Straus House4.4 miles1979
Luckey Hospital7.8 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000597 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Noble CountyAll 15 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.