Clinton F. Hesler Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Hesler Farm, also known as Clearview Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Millcreek Township, Fountain County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built in 1896, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, Queen Anne style balloon frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Clinton F. Hesler Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Fountain County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hesler, Clinton F., Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 450 S. between 200 E. and 300 E., Veedersburg, 47987
When was it listed? July 1989
Category. district
Township. Millcreek township
National Register reference number. 89000770 - 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.

The ground it stands on

13,616 words

This property stands in Millcreek Township. History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Millcreek Township - 13,616 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Clinton F. Hesler Farm: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	C. A. Miller Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	F. I. Mitchell Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fountain County

Storms near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veedersburg, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2004	Lightning	Veedersburg	1 killed	A 24 year old male was hit by lightning on a baseball field and died shortly thereafter.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$350,000	Large tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts on a house. Numerous other reports of downed trees across the county with over 2500 power outages.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed power poles on West Public Service Road and blew metal roofing into fields on both sides of US Highway 136, one-eighth to one-quarter mile west of Interstate 74 overpass.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$20,000	Trees and utility lines were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Scattered reports came in from around the county of this type of damage.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$5,000	Several trees, up to three feet in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$1,000	Multiple large tree limbs downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Veedersburg	$1,000	This EF-0 tornado, with a max wind speed of 75 mph, primarily went across cornfields while glancing two homesteads, where a few large tree branches were downed and one large trash dumpster blown over in a direction opposite from the environmental wind at the time.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$1,000	Trees and power lines downed.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$500	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	A 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	This was a public report of an estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in this location.
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Veedersburg	-	Movement of the funnel cloud was to the southeast.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	Trees were downed.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	Trees were downed.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Veedersburg	-	State police reported a brief weak tornado touchdown in a field near Veedersburg.
March 2026	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fountain 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
Veedersburg Clover Leaf Route Depot	4.3 miles	2020
Veedersburg First Christian Church	4.5 miles	2025
Cades Mill Covered Bridge	5.1 miles	2021
Wallace Covered Bridge	6.5 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000770 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fountain 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.