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Photograph of Beeson Covered Bridge
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beeson Bridge

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Beeson Covered Bridge originally crossed Roaring Creek, one mile (1.6 km) northwest of Marshall, Indiana, on County Road 216, in Washington Township, Parke County. The bridge was moved to its current location in Billie Creek Village in December 1979.”

Wikipedia article Beeson 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 1906.

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. N of Marshall, Marshall, 47859
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Parke County Covered Bridges TR
  • Township. Washington township
  • When was it built? 1906
  • National Register reference number. 78003447 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMarshall$8,000Trees were down across roads around a neighborhood in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The power was out as well.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMarshall$6,000Several trees were downed on roads near Marshall due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000Power lines and tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2015FloodMarshall$1,500Water was flowing over roadways in Marshall due to heavy rainfall of 1.40 inches in 40 minutes.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall$1,000A tree was blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Wind gust was measured by a cooperative observer.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Eight to ten inch tree limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Trash dumpsters were also overturned.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Three foot tree limbs were off trees due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMarshall-A wind gust of 71 mph was measured at Marshall, and trees were downed at Rosedale.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
July 1996HailMarshall-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
Arch in the Town of Marshall1.0 miles1985
Richard Lieber Log Cabin1.8 miles2001
William B. & Laura Guthrie House2.2 miles2020
Turkey Run State Park2.2 miles2019
Narrows Bridge2.3 miles1978
Cox Ford Bridge2.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78003447 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.