Culver Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Culver Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Culver, Indiana. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the central business district of Culver.”
Wikipedia article Culver Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 14 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Washington St., the N-S alley E of Main St., Madison St. and Ohio St., Culver, 46511
When was it listed? January 1996
Category. building
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 95001530 - 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

6,589 words

This property stands in Union Township. History of Indiana : Containing a History of Indiana and Biographical Sketches of Governors and Other Leading Men. Also a Statement of the Growth and Prosperity of Marshall County, Together with a Personal and Family Histry of Many of Its Citizens, published 1890 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 Union Township - 6,589 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Culver Commercial Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
	Allen Weaver Marl Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	Burr Oak Sand & Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culver, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	$250,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in and around Culver. Several of the trees and limbs fell onto houses or a few businesses. Damage in the area is estimated at $250,000.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	$50,000	A storage shed was destroyed and several large trees were downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	$30,000	Two power poles down near the intersection of SR 10 and SR 17.
March 2023	Hail	Culver	$500	A picture showed hail between half and three-quarter inch hail.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	The public reported a carport, anchored three feet into the ground, was blown over.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	A trained spotter reported small to medium size branches blown down. In addition, a wooden sign at a local golf course was blown down.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Amateur radio operators reported a large branch being blown down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines reported down south of Culver.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Trees and power lines down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down across the county.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Law enforcement reported trees down southeast of Culver and also near Inwood.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	Large tree down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN IN TOWN WITH SEVERAL POWER OUTAGES REPORTED.
June 2006	Hail	Culver	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Culver	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Culver	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Culver	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Forest Place Historic District	0.4 miles	2000
East Shore Historic District	2.0 miles	1998
Woodbank	2.4 miles
Norris Farm-Maxinkuckee Orchard	3.2 miles	2016
Sults-Quivey-Hartman Polygonal Barn and Farm	5.0 miles	2019
Chief Menominee Memorial Site	6.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 34 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.