Moffett-Ralston House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Moffett-Ralston House, also known as the John C. Robinson House, is a historic home located in Lafayette Township, Owen County, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Moffett-Ralston House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Owen County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1.5 mi. NE of Patricksburg on Bixler Rd., Patricksburg, 47460
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Township. Lafayette township
National Register reference number. 75000010 - 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.

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patricksburg, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Patricksburg	$1,500	Large tree limbs were down over county roads near and around Patricksburg and locations northwest of Spencer due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Patricksburg	$1,500	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a couple of trees and laid them across a road near Patricksburg.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Patricksburg	$1,500	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a couple of trees and laid them across a road near Patricksburg.
March 2026	Hail	Patricksburg	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 35 mph were also estimated at this location.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Patricksburg	-	Supercell thunderstorm wind gust near Patricksburg estimated to be 64 mph, amid pea sized hail.
April 2026	Hail	Patricksburg	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Patricksburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Vandalia Methodist Episcopal Church and Vandalia School	3.1 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000010 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Owen County	All 17 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.
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.