Photograph of Conley's Ford Covered Bridge — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Conley's Ford Bridge

Built in 1907 (Burr Truss). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Conley's Ford Covered Bridge was built in 1906 and crosses Big Raccoon Creek on County Road 550 East close to County Road 720 South, in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana. The bridge is a single span Burr Arch Truss structure.”
Wikipedia article Conley's Ford 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 1907, Burr Truss.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Bridgeton, Bridgeton, 47837
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. structure
Also known as. Parke County Covered Bridges TR
Township. Raccoon township
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. Burr Truss
National Register reference number. 78000388 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Conley's Ford Bridge: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, Coal, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
H & H Pit and Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Indiana Clay Sales Pit	Coal, Clay	Past Producer
S. L. Turner Coal & Clay Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
C & F Shale Pit 2	Clay	Producer
S.L. Turner Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Parke County

Storms near this property

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeton, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeton	$125,000	Thunderstorm straight line winds damaged a garage in the Bridgeton community and a small barn and large shed on Mansfield Road, with a couple trees onto houses, and Indiana Route 59 closed from downed trees and power poles.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeton	$3,000	Several trees were reported down just southeast of Bridgeton due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Bridgeton	-	The National Weather Service survey team has determined an EF-0 tornado struck near Bridgeton in Parke County. This tornado had wind speeds of near 80 mph cutting a path 0.4 miles long and 30 yards wide.
April 2006	Hail	Bridgeton	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeton	-	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
Big Rocky Fork Bridge	2.0 miles	1978
Mansfield Bridge	2.0 miles	1978
Mansfield Roller Mill	2.1 miles	1990
Bridgeton Bridge	2.4 miles	1978
Bridgeton Historic District	2.4 miles	1992
Jeffries Ford Bridge	4.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000388 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.