Jersey Park Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Jersey Park Farm is a historic home and farm located in Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built about 1875, and consists of a two-story, Federal style rectangular section with a two-story round section and one-story round section.”
Wikipedia article Jersey Park Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Cunningham Sarles and Borden Rds., Galena, 47106
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. building
Township. Greenville township
National Register reference number. 84001027 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jersey Park Farm: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Jorris Sand Pit	Silica	Past Producer
	Miller Sand Pit	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galena, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Galena	$10,000	The Floyd County emergency manager reported numerous trees down off High Street. One tree fell on a house and damaged a front porch.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Galena	-	Trees were reported down in Floyd County.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Galena	-	Trees were blown down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Galena	-	Numerous trees were downed by a thunderstorm microburst.
April 2006	Hail	Galena	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Galena	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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

4 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
Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church	1.7 miles	2004
Charles and Elletha Frederick House	2.2 miles	2022
Georgetown Historic District	5.6 miles	2013
Beard-Kerr Farm	6.8 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001027 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd County	All 25 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.