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Photograph of Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District
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Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District, also known as Star Mill Falls and Star Gristmill, is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. The district encompasses one contributing building, one contributing site, and two contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange 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

  • Address. Jct. of Co. Rds. 0505 W and 700 N, Howe, 46746
  • When was it listed? September 1995
  • Category. district
  • Township. Lima township
  • National Register reference number. 95001107 - 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

448 words

This property stands in Lima Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Lima Township - 448 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District in 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000285 - 2019
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTURGIS CITY FD 190068 - 2019
8 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000067 - 2019

Every fire recorded in LaGrange County

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 Star Milling and Electric Company 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cole Brothers Contractors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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

4 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
St. James Memorial Chapel1.8 miles2001
John Badlam Howe Mansion1.8 miles1995
Samuel P. Williams House2.1 miles1980
La Grange County Courthouse7.2 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001107 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaGrange CountyAll 10 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.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • 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.