John Wood Old Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“John Wood Old Mill, also known as Wood's Mill and John Wood Mill, is a historic sawmill and grist mill located at Merrillville, Indiana. It was built in 1837-1838, and is a rectangular brick building.”
Wikipedia article John Wood Old Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wood, John, Old Mill - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Merrillville on IN 330, Merrillville, 46342
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. building
Township. Ross township
National Register reference number. 75000026 - 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

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of John Wood Old Mill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
26 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	HOBART
30 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merrillville, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2001	Tornado (F1)	Merrillville	2 hurt, $100,000	A tornado touched down in Merrillville just east of the intersection of Merrillville Road and 84th Street. There was spotty minor structural damage in an industrial park with some small trees broken or pushed over, damage to signs and a few broken windows. Many structures and trees in the path had no damage. Just west of I-65, parts of the roof and glass walls of a commercial building were damaged. East of I-65, just south of Route 30, there was more damage to signs. A semi was overturned. Two people were injured by broken glass at a restaurant in Hobart. Part of the roof and a section of a wall was blown out at a Kohl's department store. The tornado crossed Route 30 and caused minor structural damage, mostly to signs and glass, at a strip mall. Behind the shops, corn was flattened and trees were damaged. The tornado then moved into the Green Acres subdivision near Colorado Street and 78th Street. A garage collapsed and many large tree limbs were blown down through the neighborhood. The tornado then weakened. Only minor damage to a few tree limbs occurred around the 7600 block of Clay Street and just south and east of the intersection of Grand and 73rd. The average path width was 50 yards.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	1 hurt, $400,000	Several buildings were damaged along Broadway Street. A roof was lifted off part of one building. Two steel garage doors were pushed in on another building. An awning and two signs were blown down. Other buildings suffered minor damage. A guard shack was blown over. An 18 year old woman in the shack suffered knee and shoulder injuries.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	$500,000	Numerous large trees blown down...some on homes and cars, 30 to 40 inch diameter trees blown down, some uprooted and some snapped. Significant damage to some homes.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	$200,000	Utility poles bent at 45 degree angle on Route 30. Roof damage to a building on Broadway, part of the roof fell onto a car. Partial wall collapse at Radison Theater near Interstate 65 and Route 30.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	$1,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	$1,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in many areas from Merrillville to Crown Point.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Photos showed a snapped tree in Merrillville.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter were blown down near Merrillville Road and 86th Place.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	A photo shared via Twitter shows five power poles either leaning or snapped due to the wind along US Rt. 30 just east of Taft St. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
March 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Merrillville	-	This tornado touched down north of U.S. Route 30 near Grant St. in Merrillville and then tracked eastward for roughly 3.3 miles before lifting over the far south side of Hobart along E 73rd Ave just east of Colorado St. The tornado blew out windows and tore sections of roofs off of multiple homes where its winds were able to compromise the residences' garage doors. The tornado also caused damage to power lines and several trees along its path.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Multiple trees were blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Numerous large trees were blown down. One tree fell onto a house.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Four trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down in Merrillville.
August 2007	Flood	Merrillville	-	Five inches of water at 161st and Route 65.
August 2007	Hail	Merrillville	-	Penny size hail reported at US 30 and Broadway.
May 2007	Hail	Merrillville	-	Penny size hail reported near Interstate 65 and US 30.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Merrillville	-	Street flooding occurred. A total of 1.64 inches of rain fell in less than one hour.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrillville	-	Trees were damaged and a traffic light was broken on Rt. 30.
August 2003	Hail	Merrillville	-	Reported at Interstate 65 and 61st Street.
June 2023	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Merrillville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
First Unitarian Church of Hobart	4.1 miles	1999
Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Church	4.2 miles	2017
Hobart Commercial District	4.2 miles	2014
Pennsylvania Railroad Station	4.2 miles	1984
Hobart Carnegie Library	4.4 miles	1982
Morgan-Skinner-Boyd Homestead	5.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 88 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.
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.