Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Marion, Indiana. It encompasses 52 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Marion.”
Wikipedia article Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1994 · 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 7th, 2nd, Branson and Gallatin Sts., Marion, 46953
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. district
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 94000226 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marion Downtown Commercial Historic District: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own Crews	Stone	Producer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Marion Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 26 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	1 hurt, $10,000	AUTOMOBILE SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED WHEN PART OF A TREE FELL ACROSS IT.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Marion	$1,000,000	EXTENSIVE FLOODING THROUGHOUT MARION AND THE COUNTY. MANY ROADS AND BRIDGES UNDER WATER. NUMEROUS RESIDENCES WERE EVACUATED ALONG THE MISSISSINEWA RIVER AS ARMY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN SANDBAGGED A WEAKENING DIKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF MARION. THE DIKE HELD BUT SEVERAL HOMES SUSTAINED WATER DAMAGE.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$150,000	WIDESPREAD TREE DAMAGE IN MARION AND ACROSS GRANT COUNTY.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$50,000	SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN TOWN. ONE CAR WAS BADLY DAMAGED BY A LARGE TREE LIMB. ONE FARM OUTSIDE OF TOWN HAD A ROOF BLOWN OFF THE BARN.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Marion	$25,000	Law enforcement reported one house with water into the first floor and numerous roads closed due to flash flooding.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$15,000	A section of the Grant County courthouse roof was blown off. Several power lines blown down.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Power lines were blown down in the area.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Tree down on car.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$3,000	Several trees blown down with some coming down on power lines.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$2,000	A large tree at 1623 East 37th Street in Marion was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. The tree brought down utility lines, damaged a garage roof, and blocked part of a road.
July 2005	Lightning	Marion	$1,000	Lightning struck the side of a house north of Marion, going through a piece of metal and sparking a small fire in attic insulations as well as an associated overhang. The fire was quickly extinguished with no injuries reported, but damage was estimated to be at least $1,000.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$1,000	Trees blown down and brick wall blown onto a car.
May 2015	Hail	Marion	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail at the intersection of County Road 125 North and 1000 East.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph at the intersection of County Road 125 North and 1000 East.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	County officials reported the Summit Village Trailer park was heavily damaged, with some mobile homes on top of each other.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Widespread power outages with estimated gusts to 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Numerous power lines down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	One tree was blown down.
September 2006	Hail	Marion	-	Nickel size hail covered the ground to a depth of 3 inches in some spots.
June 2005	Hail	Marion	-	Hail ranging from nickel to golf ball size was reported in the city.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Trees were reported blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Trees were reported down across the southern parts of the county.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down throughout the county.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Marion	-	Emergency management reported some roads closed due to flash flooding.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Law enforcement reported large tree limbs down southeast of Marion.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Ham radio operators reported trees down.
April 2001	Hail	Marion	-	Power lines reported blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A large tree was uprooted on the east side of the Grant county fairgrounds. The tree blocked the entrance to the grounds and hit power lines cutting power to the fairgrounds into early afternoon.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Power lines down
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Two trees down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Two trees blown down on Meridian Street between 50th and 53rd Streets.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Minor wind damage.
July 1998	Hail	Marion	-	HAIL IN MARION AND ON NORTH SIDE OF CITY.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	TREES DOWN IN TOWN.
March 2006	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
First Presbyterian Church	0.1 miles	2018
Marion Firestone Auto Supply & Service Center	0.2 miles	2025
Grant County Jail and Sheriff's Residence	0.2 miles	1990
Marion First United Methodist Church	0.2 miles	2025
Abijah C. Jay House	0.2 miles	2003
Webster, George, Jr. and Marie Daugherty, House	0.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000226 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 23 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.