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Photograph of Harry Evans Covered Bridge
Photograph by Jacob Hilt /Original uploaded by Parkecountybridges ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Harry Evans Bridge

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Harry Evans Covered Bridge is a single span Burr Arch Truss structure that crosses Rock Run built in 1908 by J.A. Britton mi (0.80 km) north of Coxville, Indiana, United States.”

Wikipedia article Harry Evans 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 1908.

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 Mecca off Old Greencastle Rd., Mecca, 47872
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Parke County Covered Bridges TR
  • Township. Florida township
  • When was it built? 1908
  • National Register reference number. 78000392 - 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.

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mecca, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Mecca$350,000The tornado began just west of Mecca with sporadic tree damage that continued north of West Pence Street. The tornado crossed Coxville Road before tracking mostly through rural woods and farmland west of McAdams Road. The worst damage occurred where the circulation tracked roughly parallel to McAdams Road towards County Road West 100 South where a small garage was completely destroyed and a 150 year old barn was mostly destroyed. The tornado centerline was just to the west of residences along McAdams Road. Several other residences nearby had tree and pole barn damage. The tornado then moved into farmland before dissipating just north of County Road West 100 South. Maximum winds were estimated at 110 mph.
April 2025Flash FloodMecca$50,000Several roads closed due to water flowing over them within the town of Rockville. Total rainfall was around 2.1 inches.
June 2008Flash FloodMecca$20,000Flash flooding caused damaged to roadways. The local tavern in Mecca was flooded.
August 2023FloodMecca$10,000Thunderstorms produced 4.00 to 5.00 inches of heavy rain in less than 3 hours over a small portion of Parke County in Mecca and south-southeast towards Rosedale. Water came into the basement of a home, which had not happened before.
April 2015Flash FloodMecca$10,000Flood damage to a couple of trailers in the town of Mecca due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Parke county emergency management estimated the damage at $10,000.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMecca$10,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMecca$7,000Trees and power lines were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMecca$5,000Trees were reported down across the southern part of the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMecca$5,000Numerous trees were reported down along Highway 41 and in the southern end of the county from Rockville southward due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008Flash FloodMecca$2,000County Road 600 West was closed northwest of Mecca due to flash flooding.
July 2013Flash FloodMecca$1,000Some inches of flowing water was reported over Highway 41 South due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMecca$1,000Trees down on highway
March 2009FloodMecca-Extensive flooding of agricultural land occurred along the Wabash River near Lyford, IN, and across the river from Clinton. The river crested 6.1 feet above flood stage at the Clinton river gauge on March 14th with a reading of 24.1 feet. Data is estimated due to missing data.
February 2009FloodMecca-Bottomlands and low lying county roads flooded occurred along the Wabash River in Parke County, including in and near Montezuma, due to heavy rain.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMecca-A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMecca-Trees were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMecca-Trees were blown down in roadways.
April 1996HailMecca-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Roseville Bridge0.7 miles1978
Thorpe Ford Bridge2.3 miles1978
Zacke Cox Bridge2.3 miles1978
Nevins Bridge4.6 miles1978
Wabash Township Graded School4.8 miles1987
Mecca Bridge4.9 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000392 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke CountyAll 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.
  • 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.