BlockFrom the record
One of 101 National Register listings published here for St. Joseph County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
University of Notre Dame: Main and South Quadrangles
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. Off I-80/90, Notre Dame, 46556
- When was it listed? May 1978
- Category. district
- Township. Portage township
- National Register reference number. 78000053 - 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
17,994 wordsThis property stands in Portage Township. History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 Portage Township - 17,994 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of University of Notre Dame: Main and South Quadrangles between 2018 and 2019, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2019095 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018090 - 2018 |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of University of Notre Dame: Main and South Quadrangles: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Bend S & G Corp. | Stone | Producer | ||
| South Bend Sand & Gravel Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| South Bend Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| St. Joseph Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Steenburg Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Maurice Egan House | 0.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Samuel Leeper Jr. House | 1.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Fire House No. 7 | 1.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Leeper Park | 1.2 miles | 2000 |
| Lowell Heights-Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church | 1.2 miles | 2023 | |
 | North Pumping Station | 1.2 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000053 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Joseph County | All 101 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.