Photograph of Oldenburg Historic District — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oldenburh Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Oldenburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Oldenburg and Ray Township, Franklin County, Indiana. The district encompasses 106 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Oldenburg.”
Wikipedia article Oldenburg Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded roughly by Sycamore, church land woods, Indiana, and Water Sts., and Gehring Farm, Oldenburg
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. district
Township. Ray township
National Register reference number. 83000031 - 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 Oldenburh Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Batesville Clay Mine & Plant	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oldenburg, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2002	Lightning	Oldenburg	1 hurt	A man was struck by lightning at the Cricket Ridge Golf Club on State Route 229.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Oldenburg	$500,000	Numerous reports of flash flooding were received from southern portions of Franklin County. Multiple road wash outs and erosions occurred along Barber Road, Bessler Road, Cane Mill Road, Cherry Hill Road, County Line Road, Creek Road, Elkhorn Road, Enochsburg Road, Gobles Creek Road, Monroe Road, Mountford Lane, Orchard Road, Pine Road, Pipe Creek Road, Possum Hollow Road, River Road, Russell Road, Shanks Road, Siemon Road, Sorber Road, St. Peters Road, Stockpile Road and Webb Road.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Oldenburg	$10,000	Flowing water along Huntersville Road caused some road damage.
March 2008	Flood	Oldenburg	$5,000	Multiple roads across the county were flooded and closed.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldenburg	$5,000	A few trees were downed in the southern part of the county.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldenburg	$1,000	A tree fell onto a road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Oldenburg	$1,000	A few trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Flood	Oldenburg	-	Minor street flooding was reported.
March 2022	Flood	Oldenburg	-	Huntersville Road was closed between Vote Road and Pocket Road due to high water.
April 2012	Hail	Oldenburg	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Oldenburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
	Stockheughter Covered Bridge	4.2 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 13 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.