Darlington Covered Bridge

Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Darlington Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located in Franklin Township, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was built in 1868, and is a single span, Howe truss covered bridge that spans Sugar Creek.”
Wikipedia article Darlington Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1868.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rds. 500N and 500E over Sugar Cr., Darlington, 47933
When was it listed? November 1990
Category. structure
Township. Franklin township
When was it built? 1868
National Register reference number. 90001782 - 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.

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darlington, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	$5,000	Several large tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts. A boat on a trailer was also flipped.
September 2018	Flood	Darlington	$5,000	Flooding was reported at Rocky Ridge Golf Club due to heavy rainfall. This report was relayed via broadcast media.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	$5,000	Multiple trees were reported down on County Road 625 East, one mile south of Highway 47.
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	$1,000	Small tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	$500	no account filed
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	-	Law enforcement reported a tree down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Darlington	-	Trees were downed.
May 2023	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Darlington	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Darlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
William Fisher Polygonal Barn	4.4 miles	1993
Culver Union Hospital	7.0 miles	2001
Elston Grove Historic District	7.1 miles	1992
Gen. Lew Wallace Study	7.1 miles	1976
Col. Isaac C. Elston House	7.2 miles	1982
Otto Schlemmer Building	7.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001782 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 22 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.
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.