Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Steele State Historic Site is located in rural Brown County, Indiana, one and a half miles south of Belmont, between Bloomington and Nashville, Indiana. The property was the studio and home of Hoosier Group landscape and portrait artist Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) and Selma Neubacher Steele (1870-1945), the artist's second wife.”
Wikipedia article T. C. Steele State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73000029- 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.
Fires near this property
11 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Theodore Clement Steele House and Studio
between 1999 and 2017, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
Other causes
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Nashville, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Part of the roof on the Nashville Elementary School was blown off due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Water damage occurred to some of the classrooms.
Rainfall, reported as great as 3.35 inches west-northwest of Nashville, produced flash flooding in the Nashville area. Water flowed over a bridge near the Nashville General Store.
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.
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.
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.
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