Merit-Tandy Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Merit-Tandy Farmstead, also known as the Tandy-Tillotson House, is a historic home and farm located in Posey Township, Switzerland County, Indiana. The house is situated on a hill overlooking the Ohio River.”
Wikipedia article Merit-Tandy Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Switzerland County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Patriot on IN 156, Patriot, 47038
When was it listed? April 1977
Category. building
Township. Posey township
National Register reference number. 77000021 - 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Merit-Tandy Farmstead between 2010 and 2014, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MUD LICK
6 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BACKWATERS
30 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BONE

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Merit-Tandy Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Patriot Aggregate Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Switzerland County

Storms near this property

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patriot, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$30,000	A mobile home collapsed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$15,000	Damage to several trees and buildings was reported.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$15,000	A building sustained uplift of the roof deck and loss of roof covering material.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$10,000	Structures lost some shingles and a building had an uplift of a metal roof covering.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and blew a trampoline into a pickup truck.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$1,000	A tree was downed across State Route 156.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$1,000	A tree was downed.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$1,000	A tree was knocked down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Patriot	$1,000	A tree was knocked down.
February 2021	Flood	Patriot	-	Numerous roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Switzerland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000021 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Switzerland 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.
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.