Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“Colonel William Jones House, also known as William Jones State Historic Site, is a historic house in Gentryville and the Lincoln State Park in Jackson Township, Spencer County, Indiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975.”
Wikipedia article Colonel William Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000050- 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
1 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Col. William Jones House
in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural
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
Gentryville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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.
Where the initial damage was observed, several trees were snapped on County Road 1250N at a railroad crossing about a mile west of Highway 231. The tornado tracked about a mile northeast and impacted a residence on County Road 275E. At this residence, a large barn was pushed back about 20 feet off its foundation. At the property next to this barn, a large tree was snapped at its base and fell onto the house. The corn field next to this house had some swirls in the flattened corn. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
The Gentryville area of western Spencer County was at the tail end of a very intense macroburst. The macroburst began on the west side of Evansville and crossed all of Warrick County. Damage in Spencer County was relatively minor. Trees and power lines were damaged. The total length of the macroburst was 35 miles.
The tornado crossed into Spencer County from Warrick County just before dissipating. Some tin and insulation was found in a field at the end of the tornado track. The tornado was estimated to have weakened to F-0 strength shortly before it entered Spencer County.
A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud dip below the treeline before dissipating. No damage was observed. The tornado was not associated with a strong or severe thunderstorm.
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.
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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