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Photograph of Starke County Bridge No. 39
Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Starke County Bridge No. 39

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Starke County Bridge No. 39 is a single span Warren Pony Truss structure. The bridge is located on the northern outskirts of the small town of Knox, Indiana, where Main and Water Streets terminate at the former Penn Central Railroad cut.”

Wikipedia article Starke County Bridge No. 39, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Starke County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.

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. Jct. of Main and Water Sts., across the former Pennsylvania RR cut, Knox, 46534
  • When was it listed? December 1993
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Center township
  • National Register reference number. 93001413 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Starke County Bridge No. 39: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Starke Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer
Starke County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Starke County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knox, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 22 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019LightningKnox$75,000Lightning struck a home in the city of Knox during a thunderstorm Tuesday evening. Local media did not provide an exact time, but appeared to be early evening so the time has been estimated. The home was a total loss. No one was injured in the fire. Damage is estimated at $75,000.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindKnox$20,000Trees were uprooted or damaged around Knox.
June 2023HailKnox$5,000Multiple pictures on Facebook show 2 and 3 inch hailstones that fell in Knox.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKnox$5,000The roof was torn off a building.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKnox$1,000Trees were blown down across Route 8 northwest of Knox. Winds were estimated to 90 mph in Knox. Two inches of rain fell in about 15 minutes.
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2023HailKnox$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindKnox-Numerous trees and power lines down across county.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKnox-Reports of several trees and powerlines down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindKnox-Multiple trees and powerlines down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKnox-Law enforcement officials reported trees and utility lines down across the entire county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKnox-Local law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines were blown down in the Knox area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKnox-Local media reported estimated winds to 70 mph in the town of Knox. Trees were reported uprooted with some falling onto cars near the county court house.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindKnox-A trained spotter recorded a 60 mph wind gust in Knox.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindKnox-Law enforcement officials reported several trees and tree limbs down across the county.
March 2006HailKnox-Penny size hail was reported 8 miles south of Knox, with 1 inch diameter hail being reported in Knox as the storm progressed across the county.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKnox-Few trees blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKnox-Law enforcement reported trees down in Knox.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKnox-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Knox.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindKnox-Law enforcement reported trees down near Bass Lake.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindKnox-1 tree blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindKnox-Tree down across road.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKnox-Trees down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindKnox-Tree blown down.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindKnox-SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindKnox-Strong winds downed trees north of Knox.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKnox-Trees were blown down across Route 8 northwest of Knox. Winds were estimated to 90 mph in Knox. Two inches of rain fell in about 15 minutes.
May 2018HailKnox-no account filed
May 2011HailKnox-no account filed
May 2011HailKnox-no account filed
October 2007HailKnox-no account filed
August 2006HailKnox-no account filed
October 2006HailKnox-no account filed
April 2004HailKnox-no account filed
April 2003HailKnox-no account filed
July 2001HailKnox-no account filed
July 2001HailKnox-no account filed
May 2000HailKnox-no account filed
June 1998HailKnox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Starke 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Starke County Courthouse0.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001413 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Starke CountyAll 3 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.