Everel S. Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Smith House is located on the northeast corner of West Jefferson Street and Clyborn Avenue in Westville, Indiana and is set well back from the streets it fronts. The yard is landscaped with four large maples and one medium size tulip tree equally spaced along the road.”
Wikipedia article Everel S. Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Smith, Everel S., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 56 W. Jefferson St., Westville, 46391
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. building
Township. New Durham township
National Register reference number. 90001794 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Everel S. Smith House: 1 past producer. 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
	Producers Core Sand Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 7 injuries. 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 2006	Lightning	Westville	7 hurt	A 15 year old boy and his grandfather were setting up a tent at the annual Pumpkin festival when lightning struck near the tent and travelled through the ground affect both of them. The boy was transported to the hospital with severe leg pain, but was alert. The boy's grandfather as well as 5 bystandards were affected by the lightning, treated at the scene and released.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Westville	$50,000	WEAK TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR U.S. 421 AND U.S. 30. A FEW FARMHOUSES SUFFERED SLIGHT ROOF DAMAGE.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	$15,000	Power lines down across Highway 421.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	$2,000	Large tree fell on vehicle, intersection of Plain and Washington. Road closed much of day.
March 2026	Hail	Westville	$1,000	Received a report from the public of 1.75 inch diamater hail near Westville, IN.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	$1,000	Large tree and powerlines down on Joliet Rd in Westville.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	$500	Large tree limbs down.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	The public reported a large tree limb down across the road near the intersection of US 421 and Main Street.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	The public reported a large tree fell onto State Route 421.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	A trained spotter measured wind gusts to 60 mph for a three to four minute period.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down in Westville and across the county.
June 2008	Hail	Westville	-	Law enforcement officials reported nickel size hail at US 421 and US 2.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	Emergency management reported trees down near Westville.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Westville	-	Tree blown down on U.S. Hwy 6.
June 2015	Hail	Westville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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
Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery	2.5 miles	2009
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Carmel Chapel and Carmel Cemetery	5.6 miles	2021
James and Lavinia Forrester Farmstead	5.6 miles	2017
John and Cynthia Garwood Farmstead	6.7 miles	2012
Ames Family Homestead	7.6 miles	2012
William Orr House	7.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001794 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaPorte County	All 34 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.