Hominy Ridge Shelter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Hominy Ridge Shelter House is a historic park picnic shelter complex located in the Salamonie River State Forest in Lagro Township, Wabash County, Indiana. The shelterhouse was built in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and is a rectangular Rustic style timber and stone structure with a five sided porch on each end.”
Wikipedia article Hominy Ridge Shelter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash 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

Address. On the S bank of the Salamonie R., N of Hominy Ridge Lake, in the Salamonie River State Forest, Lagro, 46941
When was it listed? September 1994
Category. building
Township. Lagro township
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 94001122 - 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.

The ground it stands on

412 words

This property stands in Lagro Township. History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the wabash river, the salamonie and its mills, creeks in the township, natural features, first land entries, lewis rogers, first real settler.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Lagro Township - 412 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Hominy Ridge Shelter House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Sees Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wabash County

Storms near this property

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagro, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagro	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagro	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees down in the town of Lagro.
June 2008	Hail	Lagro	-	Emergency management officials reported nickel-size hail one-half mile north of US 24, north of Lagro. The hail caused some damage to corn in the area. Damage is estimated at $10,000.
April 2006	Hail	Lagro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
I.O.R.M. Hall, Tonkawa No. 326	3.0 miles	2020
F. & A.M. Tuscan Lodge No. 143	3.0 miles	2020
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	3.0 miles	1999
Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery	4.2 miles	2015
13-24 Drive-In Movie Theater	6.1 miles	2021
Josiah White's Manual Labor Institute	6.7 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001122 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 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.