Happy Hollow Heights Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Happy Hollow Heights Historic District is a national historic district located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The district encompasses 54 contributing buildings in a predominantly planned residential section of Lafayette, platted in 1953 and expanded in 1958.”
Wikipedia article Happy Hollow Heights Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Tippecanoe County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1821 & 1809 Happy Hollow Rd., all houses on Laurel, Hollowood, Fearnleaf & Sumac Drs., West Lafayette, 47906
When was it listed? December 2015
Category. district
Township. Wabash township
National Register reference number. 15000891 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Happy Hollow Heights Historic District: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. 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
Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns.	Aluminum	Occurrence
Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns.	Aluminum	Plant
Bratz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Casi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Elwood Sales	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lafayette Portable Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Macy's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Taylor Station	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this property

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lafayette, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 flood, 2 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
January 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$500,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain and snow melt. 30 to 40 homes were damaged by flood waters.
February 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$400,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain and snow melt. Numerous homes were affected by flood waters.
July 1998	Tornado (F1)	West Lafayette	$200,000	Tornado damaged several houses and blew down numerous trees and power lines near North River Road and Happy Hollow Road.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$50,000	A concrete plant had it's roof blown off due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The building's bay doors were open at the time.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$30,000	A tree fell on a home in West Lafayette. No one was injured.
March 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
March 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$12,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 5th at 17:12.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$5,000	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location with the passage of the gust front. Also, shingles were blown off of the State Farm building.
May 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$5,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until June 3rd at 0049.
August 2008	Flash Flood	West Lafayette	$5,000	The rain and flash flooding created high water on numerous streets around Greater Lafayette Tuesday morning. It also forced the Lafayette Parks Department to close Munger Park and the city's aquatic facilities for the day. Power companies reported power outages scattered across the area that continued into the afternoon.
March 2006	Hail	West Lafayette	$5,000	Golfball sized hail damaged a Sheriff deputy's car.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$4,000	Multiple trees, three to four inches in diameter, were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008	Flood	West Lafayette	$2,000	This flooding is a continuation from flooding that began on May 31st at 1636 EST. The flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. Flood damage from May included five-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage. An addition two-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage occurred in June for a total of seven-thousand dollars in both crop and property damage.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$1,000	Tree downed near intersection of North River Road and US Highway 52. Time estimated from radar.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree across State Route 43 between US Route 52 and State Route 443 near the Purdue University campus.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	$1,000	no account filed
December 2007	Flood	West Lafayette	$500	Heavy rain caused flooding of the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County near Lafayette.
August 2014	Flood	West Lafayette	$250	Four to five inches of standing water was observed in a parking lot due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
September 2015	Hail	West Lafayette	-	This event occurred at Highway 52 and Piermont Drive.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed at Highway 52 and Piermont Drive.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	A 55 to 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Penny sized hail was also noted.
March 2009	Flood	West Lafayette	-	Very minor flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including in and near Lafayette, due to heavy rain. The river crest was less than one foot above flood stage. This event is a continuation from February.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	A trained spotter observed an estimated 58 mph wind gust with pea sized hail in West Lafayette.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	Trees were reported down on South River Road, south of the airport, due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
June 2003	Flash Flood	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	West Lafayette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Curtis-Grace House	0.5 miles	2012
Hills and Dales Historic District	0.8 miles	2002
Chauncey-Stadium Avenues Historic District	0.8 miles	2002
John E. and Catherine E. Christian House	0.8 miles	1992
Greenbush Cemetery	1.2 miles	2021
Morton School	1.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000891 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tippecanoe County	All 48 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.