Junction Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Morristown station is a historic train station located at Morristown, Indiana. It was built in 1867-1868 by the Junction Railroad, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, building of pinned beam construction.”
Wikipedia article Morristown station (Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Shelby 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 52, Morristown, 46161
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Township. Hanover township
National Register reference number. 79000044 - 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 Junction Railroad Depot: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Caldwell Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this property

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morristown, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Morristown	1 hurt, $75,000	An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph was discovered in northeast Shelby County to the north of Morristown. Numerous trees were snapped along and just east of the Big Blue River and Asbury Road from near County Road 1100 North to the Shelby-Hancock County line. Two homes sustained minor damage, and a gentleman sustained injuries from a tree falling on his automobile.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed gas station canopy in Morristown.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$10,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a residence. Multiple small tree limbs downed and a few larger limbs.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across US Highway 52 near Morristown. Power outage also reported across Morristown.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$1,000	A tree, two feet in diameter, was reportedly downed in this location.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$750	Tree limbs, six to eight inches in diameter, were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$500	A tree was reported down in this location due to thunderstorm wind gusts. No information on the health of the tree was provided.
May 2011	Hail	Morristown	-	This report was relayed through broadcast media.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	Trees were blown down in a cemetery due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	Trees were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	Tree were blown down over the road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	Trees were downed.
May 2011	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000044 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 15 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.