Union High Academy Historic District

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Union Bible College and Academy is a private, Christian educational institution combining a KG-12 academy and college in Westfield, Indiana. It was founded in 1861 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), receiving patronage from the Central Yearly Meeting and being aligned with the conservative holiness movement.”
Wikipedia article Union Bible College and Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1995 · category: District · built in 1911.

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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 434 S. Union St., Westfield, 46074
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. district
Township. Westfield Washington township
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 95000209 - 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 Union High Academy Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Road Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westfield, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Lightning	Westfield	$130,000	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Westfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Stultz-Stanley House	0.3 miles	2022
Westfield Historic District	0.3 miles	2019
Thornhurst Addition	4.0 miles	2010
Carmel Monon Depot	4.1 miles	2013
John Kinzer House	4.2 miles	1975
Plum Prairie Residential Historic District	5.8 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000209 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 31 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.