Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“Cannelton Historic District is a national historic district located at Cannelton, Indiana. The district encompasses 178 contributing buildings, 42 contributing structures, and two contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential and industrial areas of Cannelton.”
Wikipedia article Cannelton Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
National Register reference number.87000108- 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
22 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cannelton Historic District
between 1999 and 2019, burning about 484 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Cannelton Historic District: 3 producers, 1 past producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cannelton, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
The Ohio River at Cannelton remained above flood stage during early March. The river crested in late February but didn't drop below flood stage until March 5.
The Ohio River at Cannelton Lock went above Flood Stage (42') on February 19, and exceeded Major Flood Stage (46') from 0330 CST February 23 into March. The river crested at 50.68' at 2045 CST on February 26, which was the highest level since 1997, and the 7th highest stage on record.
Several rounds of heavy rain both locally and well upstream brought the Ohio River at Cannelton to flood. The river crested at 42.3 feet on April 18th, then fell below flood stage on April 20th.
The Ohio River at Cannelton crested around 45.3 feet at 615 AM EST on March 15. Flood stage at Cannelton is 42 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with some agricultural land covered near Cannelton and Cloverport, KY.
Several trees were reported down across the county. Two trees fell across power lines between Cannelton and Tell City. Another tree fell across a road just north of Cannelton.
A thunderstorm that had earlier produced a tornado in Daviess and Hancock Counties in Kentucky crossed the Ohio River near Hawesville, Kentucky. It produced an EF-1 tornado which touched down just northeast of Cannelton in Perry County, Indiana. Witnesses reported seeing a visible tornado intermittently lifting and touching back down as it moved northeast across the county, snapping and uprooting trees along its path. Most of the damage occurred near a Girl Scout camp on Cann Heights Road about two and a half miles northeast of Cannelton. The tornado ended near Plock Knob in southern Perry County, but the parent storm continued to produce intermittent wind damage across the southern part of the county.
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.
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.
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.
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