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Photograph of Homecroft Historic District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Homecroft Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Homecroft Historic District is a national historic district bounded roughly by Madison Avenue, Southview Drive, Orinoco Avenue, and Banta Road in Homecroft, Indiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”

Wikipedia article Homecroft Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 274 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

The ground it stands on

9,757 words

This property stands in Perry Township. History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 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 Perry Township - 9,757 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Homecroft Historic District: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Indianapolis 522 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kelsay & York Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kentucky Avenue SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R.L. Schutt Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homecroft, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$5,000An 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location. Trees and tree branches downed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed two hardwood branches.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$1,000A tree was uprooted near US Highway 31 and Edgewood Avenue due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$750Large branches or part of the main trunk split off of a tree near Banta Road and Highway 31 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-A 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-An 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-Trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
March 2016HailHomecroft-Ping pong sized hail was observed near Southport High School.
June 2010Flash FloodHomecroft-Rainfall runoff was reported to be flowing over the road at U. S. 31 and Stop 12.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-Thunderstorm winds blew down scattered tree limbs and apparently was the cause of a power outage at US Route 31 and Shelby Street.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-10" diameter trees blown down onto houses and RVs
May 2014HailHomecroft-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Southport High School, Old0.2 miles2003
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church1.8 miles2020
Administration Building, Indiana Central University2.6 miles1984
Hanna-Ochler-Elder House2.9 miles1978
Bluff Road Historic District3.0 miles2023
George Stumpf House3.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 274 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.