Battle Ground Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Battle Ground Historic District is a national historic district located at Battle Ground, Indiana. The district encompasses 129 contributing buildings in the central business district of Battle Ground, including the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe.”
Wikipedia article Battle Ground Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Tippecanoe County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Burnett Creek, Sherman Dr. and an open ridge on the SE, Battle Ground, 47920
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. district
Township. Tippecanoe township
National Register reference number. 85001639 - 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 Battle Ground Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bratz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this property

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battle Ground, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 1999	Tornado (F1)	Battle Ground	1 hurt, $300,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$50,000	Numerous trees and limbs downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts around Battle Ground Indiana. Video and lots of pics of tree damage were received. Also, widespread power outages from Battle Ground to Burrows reported with much of Delphi without power.
January 2008	Flash Flood	Battle Ground	$10,000	Multiple roads were reported to be closed due in Tippecanoe County due to flash flooding caused by rapid snow melt and heavy rain.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$6,000	Trees and tree limbs were reported down in the town of Battle Ground. Winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$5,000	Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$5,000	Multiple trees were reported down in Battle Ground and Americus due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$5,000	Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$5,000	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust downed several trees in this location. Pea-sized hail was also observed.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$2,500	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees in the town of Battle Ground.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$2,000	Large tree limb snapped due to thunderstorm wind gusts over driveway. Relayed via broadcast media.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$2,000	A tree was reported down on a power line at the 200 block of Jewett Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$1,000	An 8 inch diameter, live tree was downed across State Route 225, just east of Battle Ground due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew trees down near Battle Ground.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured on State Route 225 in Prophetstown.
January 2009	Flood	Battle Ground	-	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of lowland along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Tippecanoe County at and near Lafayette. This flood event continued into January.
May 2009	Flood	Battle Ground	-	Fairly extensive flooding of lowlands/agricultural lands occurred along the Wabash River in and near Lafayette, Indiana. The river crested 8.8 feet above flood stage on May 16th at a reading of 19.8 feet. Crop damage is grossly estimated.
May 2009	Flood	Battle Ground	-	Lowland flooding occurred along the Wabash River in/near Lafayette, Indiana. The river crested 3.3 feet above flood stage on May 2nd at a reading of 14.3 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects the following: McAllister Park Golf Course in Lafayette, river cabins near North 9th Street, low county roads are nearly impassable, Tapawingo Park in West Lafayette begins to flood, and low agricultural land. Damage costs are grossly estimated.
December 2008	Flood	Battle Ground	-	Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of lowland along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Tippecanoe County at and near Lafayette. Flood waters closed State Route 225 just south of the Wabash River near Battleground. This flood event continued into January.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	Substantial tree damage occurred due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	Trees were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	Several trees were blown down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	A downed tree landed on a mobile home.
April 2017	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Battle Ground	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Battle Ground	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Tippecanoe Battlefield	2.7 miles	1966
Indiana State Soldiers Home Historic District	3.8 miles	1974
Ely, Homestead	4.2 miles	1976
Spring Vale Cemetery	4.3 miles	2020
Cairo Skywatch Tower	5.1 miles	2002
James Pierce Jr. House	5.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tippecanoe County	All 48 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.