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Pipe Creek Falls Resort

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Pipe Creek Falls Resort is a national historic district located at Tipton Township, Cass County, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures associated with a recreational site and campground on a wooded site overlooking Pipe Creek.”

Wikipedia article Pipe Creek Falls Resort, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Co. Rds. 850 E and 275 S at Pipe Creek, Walton, 46970
  • When was it listed? September 1995
  • Category. district
  • Township. Tipton township
  • National Register reference number. 95001105 - 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

1,758 words

The chapter on Tipton Township in History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878 names Walton. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The first church was a hewed log structure built by the United Brethren, in 1852, on the Henry Snell farm. The .next house of worship was by the same denomination, soon after, on the Tucker farm, and known as the "Seven-Mile Church." The next church was in Walton, by the Lutherans; the next was by the Methodists, in 1870, and another by the Universalists, a little later. In 1872, the Christians, or Disciples, built, near Lewisburg, a neat, substantial brick church.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.

In 1850, another saw-mill was built on the Costenborder farm, by George Sharts. The year following, 1851, a third saw-mill was built by Elihu Plummer. The first grist-mill was built by Thomas K. Hansberry. The next was by John Costenborder. In 1872, a steam grist-mill was started in Walton by D. P. Cromer. At present there are in the township seven saw, and three grist-mills.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.

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 Tipton Township - 1,758 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWalton$75,000A NWS survey of the area confirmed intense straight line winds of up to 80 mph caused damage to trees, power lines and a few structures prior to and south of the F2 tornado track across Cass county. A large tree fell onto a carport north of Walton, destroying it, as well as 3 vehicles parked under it. The swath of damage from the straight line winds, associated with the rear flank downdraft of the mesocyclone reached nearly a mile wide as it crossed into Miami county. At 817 pm EST a 70 mph wind gust was recorded 7 miles south of Logansport. No injuries were reported.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalton$5,000Multiple trees down in and around Walton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWalton$2,000Received photos of a few snapped trees and large branches down on E SR 218 east of Walton.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalton$1,000Tree down on Grace street between Depot and Main st.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWalton$1,000Tree down at Grace Street between Depot and Main street.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalton$1,000A tree is down on power lines. Multiple large tree branches are down in the area.
July 2023Tornado (EF0)Walton-The majority of the damage was to beans and corn extending from west of S CR 900 E to north of SR 218 to near the intersection of E CR 700 S and S CR 500 W. A small area of tree damage was found at a property on S CR 900 E in the path of the crop damage. The Grissom ARB recorded a 74 mph wind gust immediately after the dissipation of the tornado from RFD winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWalton-Emergency management officials reported widespread tree and power line damage from Walton to Onward.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWalton-A few trees and tree limbs were blown down.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWalton-A local newspaper reported tree limbs being blown onto power lines in the Walton and Young America area.
September 2007Flash FloodWalton-State route 218 was impassable and closed in southern Cass county due to flowing water on the road. A spotter in the area reported 4 inches of rain falling in one hour just southwest of Walton.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWalton-Numerous large trees down in the Galveson area.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWalton-Tree down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWalton-no account filed
March 2006HailWalton-no account filed
March 2006HailWalton-no account filed
April 2002HailWalton-no account filed
April 2001HailWalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John Keip House6.6 miles2004
Henry Tousley House7.1 miles2002
Riverside Historic District7.2 miles2022
Jerolaman-Long House7.5 miles1985
Spencer Park Dentzel Carousel7.6 miles1987
Willard B. Place House7.6 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cass CountyAll 16 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.
  • 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.