Union Christian College

Built in 1859. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Union Christian College was a small co-educational college located in Merom, Indiana. Founded by the denomination called the Christian Church which eventually merged with the Congregational denomination which later joined with the Evangelical and Reformed Churches to form the United Church of Christ.”
Wikipedia article Union Christian College, Merom, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1859.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3rd and Philip Sts., Merom, 47861
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Township. Gill township
When was it built? 1859
National Register reference number. 82000076 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Union Christian College: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Crawford S & G East Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crawford S & G South Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Turner Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merom, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2009: 6 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2009	Flood	Merom	$5,000	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event is a continuation from December.
January 2008	Flood	Merom	$1,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including the Riverton area, due to heavy rain and snow melt. The flooding began on December 13th and continued into January.
March 2009	Flood	Merom	-	Extensive flooding occurred along the Wabash River in/near Riverton, IN. The river crested 5.5 feet above flood stage at the Riverton river gauge on March 19th with a reading of 20.5 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects rural roads, agricultural land, and isolates river cabins.
April 2009	Flood	Merom	-	Extensive flooding of lowland occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested at 19.5 feet on April 14th, 4.5 feet above flood stage. Flooding continued into May.
May 2009	Flood	Merom	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested twice in May. The primary crest was 21.8 feet on May 22nd and the secondary crest was 18.6 feet on the 8th. Flood stage is 15 feet. This flooding was a continuation from April. Crop damage value is a gross estimate.
December 2008	Flood	Merom	-	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event continued into January.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Merom	-	A tree was reported down on State Route 58.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Merom	-	Trees were down in Merom due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Merom	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Merom-Gill Township Carnegie Library	0.4 miles	2019
	Merom Site and Fort Azatlan	0.8 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000076 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 9 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.