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Photograph of Jacob Rickenbaugh House
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rickenbaugh House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Jacob Rickenbaugh House is a historic home located in Hoosier National Forest, Oil Township, Perry County, Indiana. It was built in 1874, and is a two-story, "T"-plan dwelling constructed of ashlar sandstone blocks in the late Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Jacob Rickenbaugh House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Perry 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SW of St. Croix in Hoosier National Forest, St. Croix, 47576
  • When was it listed? April 1984
  • Category. building
  • Township. Oil township
  • National Register reference number. 84001215 - 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Rickenbaugh House between 1993 and 2016, burning about 179 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestMP76
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestDOOLITTLE MILLS
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresHoosier National ForestI-64
14 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHoosier National ForestST. MARKS
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestUNIONTOWN
3 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestREST AREA (I-64)
24 August 2002Naturalunder an acreHoosier National ForestNORTH FACE
24 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresHoosier National ForestST.CROIX

Every fire recorded in Perry 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry CountyAll 7 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.