Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and cemetery located in Lagro Township, Wabash County, Indiana, US. It was built in 1872 and is a one-room Gothic Revival style brick church.”
Wikipedia article Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 2015 · 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, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5031 E. 300 N., Urbana, 46990
When was it listed? September 2015
Category. building
Township. Lagro township
National Register reference number. 15000600 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

412 words

This property stands in Lagro Township. History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the wabash river, the salamonie and its mills, creeks in the township, natural features, first land entries, lewis rogers, first real settler.

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 Lagro Township - 412 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
H & W Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sees Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Strouder Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wabash County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urbana, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	$20,000	Five utility poles fell across SR 13, blocking traffic for up to two hours as power companies worked to shut off power to live electrical wires. The poles had to be replaced before power could be restored.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	Several trees and power lines down with some falling across roadways. Power lines down caused scattered power outages.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	Several trees down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	A large tree was blown down along State Road 13, near Urbana.
August 2012	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Urbana	-	no account filed
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Urbana	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Urbana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
I.O.R.M. Hall, Tonkawa No. 326	2.8 miles	2020
F. & A.M. Tuscan Lodge No. 143	2.8 miles	2020
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	2.8 miles	1999
Hominy Ridge Shelter House	4.2 miles	1994
13-24 Drive-In Movie Theater	5.4 miles	2021
McNamee-Ford House	7.8 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000600 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 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.