First National Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The First National Bank is a historic bank building located at Terre Haute, Indiana. It was built in 1892 and remodeled in 1928, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style limestone building.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank (Terre Haute, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 1992 · 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. 509 Wabash Ave., Terra Haute, 47807
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Downtown Terre Haute MRA
Township. Harrison township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 83004576 - 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.

Fires near this property

29 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank between 2001 and 2005, burning about 269 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

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 First National Bank: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Terre Haute City Eng.	Stone	Producer
Harlan Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Terre Haute North Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Whitlock Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Vigo 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wabash Avenue-West Historic District	under 500 feet	1983
Building at 510-516 Ohio Street	under 500 feet	1983
Citizens' Trust Company Building	under 500 feet	1983
Building at 23-27 S. Sixth Street	under 500 feet	1983
Star Building	under 500 feet	1983
First Congregational Church	0.1 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004576 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vigo County	All 58 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.