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Photograph of Independence Methodist Church
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Independence Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Independence Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at the junction of N500E and E375N southeast of Wheatfield in Gillam Township, Jasper County, Indiana. It was built in 1872, and is a one-story, simple rectangular frame building originally built in the Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Independence Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 1982 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE of Wheatfield, Wheatfield, 47957
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. Gillam township
  • National Register reference number. 82000042 - 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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatfield, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWheatfield$5,000Two trees and powerlines blown down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWheatfield$1,000A power pole and its wires were reported down in the town of Wheatfield.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-A fence was damaged and a large playground set rolled out of a yard in Wheatfield.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Numerous tree and power lines were reported down along a corridor from CR 100E to CR 400 N east of Wheatfield between CR 1300N and IN-10.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Power lines were blown down across Route 49, which was closed.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-A tree had been blown down across W County Road 1000 N east of N County Road 200 W southwest of Wheatfield. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-A wind gust to 67 mph was measured with a mobile anemometer at the intersection of State Road 10 and Route 49.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Tree and power line damage was reported across Wheatfield.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-One tree was snapped and several tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-A large tree was blown down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Several large trees were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees were blown down near 900 W and Route 49.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees were blown down near 1100 N and Route 49.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-A one foot diameter tree was snapped near County Road 900 North and State Road 49.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Wind gusts were estimated between 50 and 60 mph, two miles west of Wheatfield.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Numerous large trees were blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in and around Wheatfield.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Tree limbs were blown down at the Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees were blown down on roads from 1450N to 1700N and 400W to 500W.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees and power poles were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees were blown down at Highway 231 and County Road 800 North.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Numerous trees were reported to be knocked down.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-Trees were blown down.
March 2026HailWheatfield-no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWheatfield-no account filed
June 2012HailWheatfield-no account filed
June 2008HailWheatfield-no account filed
June 2008HailWheatfield-no account filed
July 2003HailWheatfield-no account filed
December 1998HailWheatfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jasper CountyAll 12 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.