Burris House and Potawatomi Spring

Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Burris House and Potawatomi Spring was a historic home located at Adams Township, Carroll County, Indiana. The house was built between 1838 and 1840, and is a simple two-story, frame dwelling sheathed in clapboard.”
Wikipedia article Burris House and Potawatomi Spring, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1838.

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

The listing

Address. Towpath Rd., Lockport, 46923
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
Township. Adams township
When was it built? 1838
National Register reference number. 77000018 - 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.

The ground it stands on

182 words

The chapter on Adams Township in History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names Lockport. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

1835. Lockport was the only village in the township. It was located on the Wabash and Erie canal, and for many years a large amount of business was transacted at this place. John Newman built a saw-mill on Rattlesnake creek in 1834. and a few years later added a flouring-mill. A number of saw-mills were built by various persons.

Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Adams Township - 182 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lockport	$3,000	Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lockport	$2,000	Trees of unknown size downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lockport	$2,000	Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lockport	-	Trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2006	Hail	Lockport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Lockport Wabash River Bridge	0.4 miles	2025
Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100	0.5 miles	2002
Little Rock Creek Stone Arch Bridge	1.0 miles	2021
District School No. 3	3.4 miles	1988
Carrollton Bridge	5.5 miles	2003
Camden Masonic Temple	6.4 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000018 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 37 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.