Old Jeffersonville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Old Jeffersonville Historic District is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States. It marks the original boundaries of Jeffersonville, and is the heart of modern-day downtown Jeffersonville.”
Wikipedia article Old Jeffersonville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1987 · 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 Court Ave., Graham St., Ohio River, & I-65, Jeffersonville, 47130
When was it listed? October 1987
Category. district
Township. Jeffersonville township
National Register reference number. 87001461 - 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Old Jeffersonville Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt, Lead. 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
Cargill Salt/ Clarksville, Ind.	Salt	Plant
Globe Union/ Louisville, Ky.	Lead	Unknown
Pilot Co. Pit	Magnesite	Past Producer
Atkins Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Louisville Sand&Gravel Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Alert Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
First Street Yard	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martha E. Green Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nugent Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffersonville, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 8 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2001	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	$30,000	Four homes were flooded in Jeffersonville. Roads were covered with water. One car was submerged.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	$15,000	A trained spotter reported a large tree, multiple limbs, and power lines down just northeast of downtown Jeffersonville.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	$10,000	A trained spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds brought down power poles in the area.
August 2007	Hail	Jeffersonville	$10,000	Hail caused damage to cars in the Jeffersonville area.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	A tree fell onto a power line and a firework tent was damaged near White Castle.
June 2023	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	This report came from mPing.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	A tree fell on a house on Hertzsch Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Trees were reported down on Pratt Street in Jeffersonville. Some minor street flooding also occurred.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	A public report was received of a tree blown down on Cedarview Drive.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	A public report of flooded and impassable side streets was received across pars of Jeffersonville. Rainfall amounts across southern Clark County varied from 3 to locally 4 inches.
June 2013	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	One inch hail fell in Clarksville, just across the Ohio River from Louisville.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	A 60mph wind gust was estimated at the leading edge of a squall line. Many downed trees and branches were reported from around the county.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	A trained spotter reported gusts to 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Trees were damaged in Jeffersonville.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Heavy rain of more than four inches in an hour and a half caused streams to rapidly rise out of their banks.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Jeffersonville	-	A spotter measured 5.50 inches of rainfall between 7 am and 240 pm EDT.
August 2009	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	One inch hail was falling at the YMCA.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed power lines.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Several trees were downed along State Highway 62.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Power lines and a large tree were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	An off duty NWS employee estimated a 70 mph wind gust.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
December 2002	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Underpasses were flooded on Eastern Boulevard.
January 2002	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Numerous roads were covered by water, mainly in the Jeffersonville area.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Trees were blown down.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Streets in Jeffersonville were covered by as much as two feet of water.
January 2000	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Roads flooded in southern Jeffersonville
January 2000	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	Tennis ball size hail
July 1998	Flash Flood	Jeffersonville	-	Several streets were water covered as 4 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Trees downed along Charlestown Pike.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	Power lines down.
May 1995	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	Three-quarters inch hail reported by police.
May 1994	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	An off duty weather service employee reported 1 inch to golfball sized hail in Jeffersonville. IOWA
March 2025	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Jeffersonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Grisamore House	0.3 miles	1983
M. Fine & Sons Building	0.6 miles	2020
Howard Home	0.8 miles	1973
Spring Street Freight House	0.8 miles	2007
Henry French House	0.9 miles	1989
Indiana State Prison South-Indiana Reformatory- Colgate-Palmolive Historic District	1.0 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001461 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 19 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.