Paw Paw Creek Bridge No. 52

Built in 1874. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“Paw Paw Creek Bridge No. 52 was a historic Bow-String arch bridge located in Richland Township, Miami County, Indiana. It was built in 1874 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company and spanned Paw Paw Creek.”
Wikipedia article Paw Paw Creek Bridge No. 52, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Miami County · category: Structure · built in 1874.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Paw Paw Pike, Chili, 46926
Category. structure
Township. Richland township
When was it built? 1874
National Register reference number. 83000008 - 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

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chili, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	$10,000	Emergency management officials reported a large tree fell onto a car. The car was unoccupied at the time. Damage to the car is estimated at $10,000.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	$3,000	Law enforcement reported a roof blown off a home just north of Chili.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down.
July 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Chili	-	A NWS survey of damage indicated a tornado touched down northeast of Denver, near the intersection of N Warsaw Trail and E County Road 800 N. The tornado remained over open fields for part of its time, doing crop damage along its path. Some trees were either snapped or uprooted. A poorly anchored, older barn was destroyed near the intersection of N County Road 600 East and E County Road 900 N. The tornado lifted shortly after crossing 900 N. Maximum winds were estimated at around 90 mph.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	A trained spotter reported a large walnut tree was uprooted along east 600 North, east of Paw Paw Pike. A house suffered roof loss in the area, with a hog barn being partially destroyed.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chili	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines in the area.
June 2002	Hail	Chili	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Chili	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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

1 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
	Eikenberry Bridge	4.9 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami County	All 18 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.