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One of 18 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Converse Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Address. 4 blks. along Jefferson between Marion & 1st Sts. & 1 blk. of E. Railroad St., Converse, 46919
- When was it listed? December 2016
- Category. district
- Township. Jackson township
- National Register reference number. 16000907 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Converse Commercial Historic District in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Converse Commercial Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pipe Creek Stone Co. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Converse, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Two large trees down. One in the street and the other on a house. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Emergency management officials reported two large trees down, one onto a home. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Measured gust on anemometer. 12 inch thick tree limbs also down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Emergency management officials reported a grain bin was blown down by strong winds. In addition, the roof of a barn was blown off. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | A trained spotter reported measured sustained winds of 45 mph with gusts as high as 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Emergency management officials reported several four to six inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| June 2005 | Lightning | Converse | - | A gentleman riding a mo-ped was seeking shelter from the wind and rain when lightning struck the area he was standing. He was taken to the hospital, but his exact injuries and the cause were not available. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down near Converse. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Converse | - | Emergency management reported sewage overflow near Converse. Most roads in southern part of county closed. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Converse | - | A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 80 MPH north of Converse with large trees down. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Converse | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Converse-Jackson Township Public Library | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Converse Depot | 0.2 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000907 in Record Group 79. |
| Miami County | All 18 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.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- 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.