Photograph of Big Rocky Fork Covered Bridge — Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Big Rocky Fork Bridge

Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Big Rocky Fork Covered Bridge is located 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Mansfield, Indiana, on County Road 720 and about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of State Road 59, in Parke County.”
Wikipedia article Big Rocky Fork Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Parke County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure · built in 1900.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Mansfield on Greencastle Rd., Mansfield, 47872
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. structure
Also known as. Parke County Covered Bridges TR
Township. Jackson township
When was it built? 1900
National Register reference number. 78000383 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Big Rocky Fork Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
	H & H Pit and Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	S.L. Turner Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Parke County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mansfield	$5,000	The 139-year-old Mansfield Covered Bridge was damaged when straight line winds blew off 160 feet of the 247-foot span's metal roof.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mansfield	$500	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mansfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parke 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
Mansfield Bridge	under 500 feet	1978
Mansfield Roller Mill	under 500 feet	1990
Conley's Ford Bridge	2.0 miles	1978
Bridgeton Bridge	4.4 miles	1978
Bridgeton Historic District	4.4 miles	1992
McAllister Bridge	5.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000383 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke County	All 47 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.