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Photograph of Kixmiller's Store
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kixmiller's Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Carlise and Indianapolis Sts., Freelandville, 47535
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. Widner township
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78000035 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kixmiller's Store: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kixmiller Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this property

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freelandville, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$200,000Two houses sustained significant damaged due to damaging thunderstorm winds. At one house the roof came off, the garage was destroyed, and both cars in the garage were destroyed. At the other house the garage was pulled away from the south side of the house and ended up on the north side. The garage doors were wrapped around trees and seven large pine trees were destroyed. The front porch also sustained damage. Several utility poles were also knocked down and damaged occurred to the roof of a high school. The scoreboard at the high school was destroyed.
March 2026FloodFreelandville$5,000High water report on State road 159 near Stoelting Road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$5,000Downed trees and power lines were widespread in Freelandville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$2,000Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,500A tree was downed onto power lines on State Road 159 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,500A tree was downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This tree took down power lines in front of a nursing home.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
October 2016HailFreelandville-This report was relayed from a social media post.
April 2015HailFreelandville-This report was relayed from the fire chief.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-State Road 58 was blocked by debris blown onto the road by thunderstorm winds in Freelandville. Exact location or details about the debris are unknown.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Grain bins were blown down and a farmhouse was heavily damaged. The time of the event is estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Trees were downed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Several large limbs were downed.
February 2024HailFreelandville-no account filed
May 2014HailFreelandville-no account filed
March 2012HailFreelandville-no account filed
August 2001HailFreelandville-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Alfred Simonson House4.8 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000035 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Knox CountyAll 19 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.