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

Roann Covered Bridge, 4th

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“4th Roann Covered Bridge is a historic Howe Truss covered bridge located in Paw Paw Township, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built in 1877 by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio and crosses the Eel River.”
Wikipedia article Roann Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure · built in 1877.

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 Roann on SR 700W, Roann, 46974
When was it listed? August 1981
Category. structure
Township. Paw Paw township
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 81000022 - 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

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roann, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	$500	Large tree limbs down, including a 10-inch diameter branch near Adams and Church roads.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Hog barn destroyed by strong wind gust.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Roann	-	Law enforcement officials reported a trailer park was being flooded by high water, resulting in the evacuation of many of the residents. No damage estimates were available.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the Roann area.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several empty grain bins blown over.
May 2011	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
Roann Historic District	0.1 miles	2013
Thomas J. Lewis House	0.3 miles	2006
Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Library	0.3 miles	2002
Halderman-Van Buskirk Farmstead	0.5 miles	2013
Stockdale Mill	1.0 miles	2004
Honeywell Studio	6.8 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000022 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 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.