Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Bonneyville Mills is a historic grist mill located at Bonneyville Mills in York Township, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1832, and is a square, heavy timber-frame building on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Bonneyville Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Elkhart County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000020- 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
6 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bonneyville Mills
between 2009 and 2020, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 June 2017
Arson/incendiarism
13 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
ST JOSEPH 01 MICHIANA MULCH
20 June 2020
Recreation and ceremony
1.0 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
WHITE PIGEON TWP FD 085 - 2020
13 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
ST.JOSEPH 01
19 March 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
WHITE PIGEON TWP FD 0000045 - 2018
3 November 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 614 - 2020
10 November 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
1.0 acres
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
WHITE PIGEON TWP FD 161 - 2020
Mines and
quarries near this property
4 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Bonneyville Mills: 3 producers, 1 unknown.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bristol, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain.
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.
THIS WAS THE SAME TORNADO WHICH BEGAN IN NILES EARLIER. DAMAGE WAS EXTENSIVE TO TREES AND POWER LINES FROM THE ELKHART/CASS COUNTY LINE TO THE TOWN OF BRISTOL. SOME HOMES SUFFERED MAINLY MINOR DAMAGE TO SIDING...ROOFS AND GUTTERS. SOME OUTBUILDINGS HOWEVER WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
One of a series of 7 50-foot power poles were struck by high winds, causing a cascade effect with the other 6 falling shortly thereafter, onto State Route 15, just south of Bristol. Occupants of 5 vehicles were trapped for a few hours while power lines were de-energized. A car was reported to have been set on fire as a result of the live wires. One of the drivers reported seeing the pole begin to fall, which resulted in him speeding up to avoid the pole. However a pole immediately ahead of him began falling as well, causing him to swerve into a corn field. Less than a mile away form the downed poles, a dump truck loaded with dirt rolled over in a ditch. It is unknown if this is due to strong winds or attempting to avoid the upcoming downed poles. A tree fell onto a car a mile east of the downed poles, crushing the roof and windshield. No injuries were reported with any of the accidents.
Trees were reported down in the city of Middlebury. Numerous trees were sheared off eight feet above the ground north of Bristol. Power lines were also blown down along State Route 15.
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
4 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.
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.
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