Corydon Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Corydon Historic District is a national historic district located in Corydon, Indiana, United States. The town of Corydon is also known as Indiana's First State Capital and as Historic Corydon.”
Wikipedia article Corydon Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Corydon, Corydon, 47112
When was it listed? August 1973
Category. district
Township. Harrison township
National Register reference number. 73000017 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Corydon Historic District: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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	Recorded
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Corydon Quarry	Stone	Producer
Corydon Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Harrison Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
Mathes Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this property

60 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corydon, the town this property stands in, in 99 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 57 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 9 flash flood, 6 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2020	Flash Flood	Corydon	$150,000	Flood waters made it into numerous homes and businesses, and a water rescue took place on Budd Road. Cost of damages estimated.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$30,000	A tree was blown on to a house. Another tree was blown on to power lines. Part of a garage roof was blown off.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$20,000	The roof was blown off a barn.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$10,000	A tree was blown on to a house in Corydon.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$10,000	Several barns destroyed
July 1996	Tornado (F1)	Corydon	$10,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$5,000	The Harrison County emergency manager reported that severe thunderstorm winds brought down power lines on State Road 62 approximately 1/2 mile east of Corydon.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$5,000	Trees were uprooted, and trailer underpinnings were torn out.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$2,000	Some trees were downed with pea size hail. Wind speed estimate from radar.
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	$2,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Corydon	$1,000	Branches were downed and windows were broken by golf ball size hail.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	INDOT site IN040 1.9 N Corydon measured a 62 mph wind gust.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	The IN040 RWIS site measured a 50 knot wind gust.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were blown down onto a house by strong winds.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A tree was blown down and several power lines were brought down northeast of Corydon near Interstate 64.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were blown down in Corydon.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	There was significant roof damage to a commercial building along State Road 337. Roofing material was blown eastward into vehicles parked at nearby duplexes. There was also minor damage at a duplex.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A tree blew down on a driveway.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A tree fell on power lines and blocked Williar Avenue.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	There were multiple broken large tree limbs.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Multiple trees were reported down in Corydon.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A Bradford pear tree broke in half with the upper half blocking southbound Edsel Lane at Federal Drive.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	There were numerous trees blocking roadways throughout the county causing several roads to be closed.
July 2018	Hail	Corydon	-	Hail fell for 30 minutes in downtown Corydon. The largest hail was golf ball size.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Corydon	-	Major flooding was reported in Corydon. Water covered roads that do not normally flood.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	The public reported that windows were blown out of the Walmart store in Corydon.
June 2016	Hail	Corydon	-	In addition to the hail, the trained spotter reported winds near 50 mph.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2015	Flood	Corydon	-	Little Indian Creek overflowed Mulberry Street in Corydon.
June 2015	Hail	Corydon	-	A broadcast meteorologist relayed to the NWS a report of hail up to 3/4 inch in diameter.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A state official reported trees down.
April 2015	Hail	Corydon	-	The public reported silver dollar size hail in Corydon.
July 2015	Hail	Corydon	-	A trained spotter reported 1 inch diameter hail.
December 2015	Hail	Corydon	-	A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of 1 inch diameter hail.
December 2015	Flood	Corydon	-	An amateur radio operator reported to the NWS that several Harrison County low water crossings were flooded, including Highway 337 just north of I-64.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Harrison County law enforcement reported trees down county wide, including the town of Corydon.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Corydon	-	An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with wind speeds estimated at 65 mph. The path length was approximately 0.3 miles with a width of 50 yards. Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were either snapped or uprooted along the northern bank of Indian Creek.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A trained spotter reported trees were blown down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2011	Flood	Corydon	-	Widespread road closures were reported countywide.
April 2011	Flood	Corydon	-	Both Big and Little Indian Creeks in downtown Corydon were flooding out of their banks with water over the nearby street. The water was entering parking lots and approaching businesses.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated along leading edge of a squall line.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	The public reported several trees down in the Corydon area.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A roof was blown off a business and power poles were snapped on the northwest side of Corydon.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were downed across the county. Some trees were down on power lines and roads. Emergency Manager estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Numerous power lines were downed across the county.
September 2009	Heavy Rain	Corydon	-	Three inches of rain fell between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm EST. Total rain for the day through 5:30 pm EST was 3.30 inches.
March 2008	Flood	Corydon	-	The Big Indian Creek near Corydon flooded a campground. Trailers and vehicles were submerged in high water. Several creeks and streams were out of their banks near Palmyra.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Numerous trees and power lines down all across the county.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were reported down across the county.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were downed on Highways 111, 62, 337 and 11 and also in Corydon.
December 2007	Flood	Corydon	-	Parts of Indiana Highway 11 were closed. There was high water in spots in the town of Corydon.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	A spotter reported a 60 MPH wind gust on the south side of Corydon. Trees were downed on Highway 135.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Corydon	-	Swift flowing water was reported at Walnut and Capitol Streets.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Corydon	-	Corydon-Ramsey Road was closed due to high water.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were blown down.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Corydon	-	Trees were downed.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Corydon	-	Some streets in downtown Corydon were impassable due to flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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

4 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
Corydon Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1989
Kintner House Hotel	0.1 miles	1987
Kintner-McGrain House	0.4 miles	1983
Corydon Battle Site	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000017 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harrison County	All 6 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.