Snow Hill Covered Bridge

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Snow Hill Covered Bridge, also known as Johnson Fork Covered Bridge, is a historic Howe Truss covered bridge located in Whitewater Township, Franklin County, Indiana. The bridge was built in 1895, and measures 75 feet long.”
Wikipedia article Snow Hill Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1894.

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. Snow Hill Rd. over Johnson Fork, Rockdale, 47060
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. structure
Township. Whitewater township
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 95000208 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Snow Hill Covered Bridge: 2 producers, 2 plants. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dry Fork Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Harrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Harrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
New Trenton Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Salmon Turrell Farmstead	0.5 miles	2009
	Cedar Grove Bridge	5.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 13 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.