Photograph of West Union Covered Bridge — Photograph by Jacob Hilt, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Union Bridge

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“The West Union Covered Bridge formerly carried Tow Path Road over Sugar Creek north-northeast of Montezuma, Indiana. The two-span Burr Arch Truss covered bridge structure was built by Joseph J.”
Wikipedia article West Union Covered Bridge (Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Parke County · category: Structure · built in 1876 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Montezuma, West Union vicinity, Reserve Township (Montezuma), 47862
Category. structure
Township. Reserve township
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 78000414 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Union Bridge: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, 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
Dee Clay Pit	Stone, Clay	Producer
Hawkins Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dana Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Dee Clay Products Company, Inc.	Clay	Producer

Every working 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
Marshall Bridge	2.0 miles	1978
Rush Creek Bridge	3.2 miles	1978
Jackson Bridge	3.3 miles	1978
Leatherwood Station Bridge	3.4 miles	1978
Joseph Finney House	3.4 miles	2002
Mill Creek Bridge	3.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000414 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.