Markle House and Mill Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Markle House and Mill Site is a historic home and site of Markle's Mill located in Otter Creek Township, Vigo County, Indiana. The house was built in 1848, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style painted brick dwelling with Italianate style influences.”
Wikipedia article Markle House and Mill Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 4900 Mill Dam Rd., North Terre Haute, 47805
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Township. Otter Creek township
National Register reference number. 79000023 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Markle House and Mill Site: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Standard Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Terre Haute, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2018	Flash Flood	North Terre Haute	$20,000	Numerous roads were closed due to flowing water across northern Vigo County from heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	North Terre Haute	$10,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed numerous trees across northern Vigo County.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Terre Haute	-	Damaging thunderstorm winds moved through the north side of Terre Haute.
April 2013	Hail	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Terre Haute	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Highland Lawn Cemetery	3.3 miles	1990
Vigo County Home for Dependent Children	3.5 miles	2000
Butternut Hill	3.6 miles	1993
Twelve Points Historic District	3.7 miles	2005
Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District	3.8 miles	2004
Collett Park	3.9 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000023 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vigo County	All 58 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.