BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Merom Site and Fort Azatlan
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 objectss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Merom, Merom, 47861
- When was it listed? May 1975
- Category. site
- Township. Gill township
- National Register reference number. 75000052 - 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
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Merom Site and Fort Azatlan: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Abram and Hawkins Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Crawford S & G East Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Crawford S & G South Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Graysville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lawrence Gravel #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Turner Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merom, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2009: 6 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Flood | Merom | $5,000 | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event is a continuation from December. |
| January 2008 | Flood | Merom | $1,000 | Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including the Riverton area, due to heavy rain and snow melt. The flooding began on December 13th and continued into January. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Extensive flooding occurred along the Wabash River in/near Riverton, IN. The river crested 5.5 feet above flood stage at the Riverton river gauge on March 19th with a reading of 20.5 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects rural roads, agricultural land, and isolates river cabins. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Extensive flooding of lowland occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested at 19.5 feet on April 14th, 4.5 feet above flood stage. Flooding continued into May. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Flooding occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested twice in May. The primary crest was 21.8 feet on May 22nd and the secondary crest was 18.6 feet on the 8th. Flood stage is 15 feet. This flooding was a continuation from April. Crop damage value is a gross estimate. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Merom | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event continued into January. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | A tree was reported down on State Route 58. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | Trees were down in Merom due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merom-Gill Township Carnegie Library | 0.5 miles | 2019 | |
 | Union Christian College | 0.8 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75000052 in Record Group 79. |
| Sullivan County | All 9 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.