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Photograph of Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence is a historic county jail and residence located at 215 East 3rd Street in Marion, Indiana, United States. It was designed by Richards, McCarty & Bulford and built in 1904.”

Wikipedia article Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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. 215 E. 3rd St., Marion, 46952
  • When was it listed? November 1990
  • Category. building
  • Township. Center township
  • Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83004526 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own CrewsStoneProducer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marion PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 26 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion1 hurt, $10,000AUTOMOBILE SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED WHEN PART OF A TREE FELL ACROSS IT.
August 1998Flash FloodMarion$1,000,000EXTENSIVE FLOODING THROUGHOUT MARION AND THE COUNTY. MANY ROADS AND BRIDGES UNDER WATER. NUMEROUS RESIDENCES WERE EVACUATED ALONG THE MISSISSINEWA RIVER AS ARMY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN SANDBAGGED A WEAKENING DIKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF MARION. THE DIKE HELD BUT SEVERAL HOMES SUSTAINED WATER DAMAGE.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion$150,000WIDESPREAD TREE DAMAGE IN MARION AND ACROSS GRANT COUNTY.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion$50,000SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN TOWN. ONE CAR WAS BADLY DAMAGED BY A LARGE TREE LIMB. ONE FARM OUTSIDE OF TOWN HAD A ROOF BLOWN OFF THE BARN.
July 2003Flash FloodMarion$25,000Law enforcement reported one house with water into the first floor and numerous roads closed due to flash flooding.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion$15,000A section of the Grant County courthouse roof was blown off. Several power lines blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindMarion$5,000Power lines were blown down in the area.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarion$5,000Tree down on car.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion$3,000Several trees blown down with some coming down on power lines.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion$2,000A large tree at 1623 East 37th Street in Marion was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. The tree brought down utility lines, damaged a garage roof, and blocked part of a road.
July 2005LightningMarion$1,000Lightning struck the side of a house north of Marion, going through a piece of metal and sparking a small fire in attic insulations as well as an associated overhang. The fire was quickly extinguished with no injuries reported, but damage was estimated to be at least $1,000.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarion$1,000Trees blown down and brick wall blown onto a car.
May 2015HailMarion-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail at the intersection of County Road 125 North and 1000 East.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMarion-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph at the intersection of County Road 125 North and 1000 East.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMarion-County officials reported the Summit Village Trailer park was heavily damaged, with some mobile homes on top of each other.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion-Widespread power outages with estimated gusts to 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion-Numerous power lines down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion-One tree was blown down.
September 2006HailMarion-Nickel size hail covered the ground to a depth of 3 inches in some spots.
June 2005HailMarion-Hail ranging from nickel to golf ball size was reported in the city.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarion-Trees were reported blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMarion-Trees were reported down across the southern parts of the county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarion-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down throughout the county.
July 2003Flash FloodMarion-Emergency management reported some roads closed due to flash flooding.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMarion-Law enforcement reported large tree limbs down southeast of Marion.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMarion-Ham radio operators reported trees down.
April 2001HailMarion-Power lines reported blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion-A large tree was uprooted on the east side of the Grant county fairgrounds. The tree blocked the entrance to the grounds and hit power lines cutting power to the fairgrounds into early afternoon.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion-Power lines down
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion-Two trees down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion-Two trees blown down on Meridian Street between 50th and 53rd Streets.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarion-Minor wind damage.
July 1998HailMarion-HAIL IN MARION AND ON NORTH SIDE OF CITY.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion-TREES DOWN IN TOWN.
March 2006HailMarion-no account filed
September 2006HailMarion-no account filed
May 2005HailMarion-no account filed
November 2005HailMarion-no account filed
May 2002HailMarion-no account filed
April 2001HailMarion-no account filed
April 2001HailMarion-no account filed
April 2001HailMarion-no account filed
September 2001HailMarion-no account filed
May 2000HailMarion-no account filed
May 1999HailMarion-no account filed
June 1998HailMarion-no account filed
May 1996HailMarion-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District0.2 miles1994
Marion First United Methodist Church0.3 miles2025
Marion Firestone Auto Supply & Service Center0.3 miles2025
First Presbyterian Church0.3 miles2018
Abijah C. Jay House0.3 miles2003
Aaron Swayzee House0.3 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004526 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant CountyAll 23 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.