McCairn-Turner House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“McCairn-Turner House, also known as the Gilman-Turner House, is a historic home located at Goodland, Indiana. The original section was built about 1869, received an addition about 1875, and renovated in the Italianate style in 1886-1887.”
Wikipedia article McCairn-Turner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McCairn--Turner House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 124 West Jasper St., Goodland, 47948
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. building
Township. Grant township
National Register reference number. 94000232 - 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 McCairn-Turner House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Newton County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goodland, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
November 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Goodland	$250,000	The tornado touched down in Goodland causing several large grain bins to cave in on themselves with some of the surrounding scaffolding collapsing. This portion of the storm was consistent with high-end EF-0 damage with estimated winds to 85 mph. The tornado continued into Jasper County around 1:29 PM CST where it further intensified to EF-1.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	Trees and power lines were blown down near Newton Street and Wayland Avenue.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	A large tree limb was blown down.
August 2012	Hail	Goodland	-	Hail ranged from quarter to half dollar size.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	A large tree was blown down blocking a road in far southeast Newton County.
June 2019	Hail	Goodland	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Goodland	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Goodland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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

3 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
Goodland-Grant Township Public Library	0.2 miles	2004
George Ade House	6.9 miles	1976
Newton County Courthouse	7.8 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000232 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 6 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.