Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Dearborn County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The chapter on Caesar Creek Township in History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 names Dillsboro. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Farmers Retreat is the central place of the township of Caesar Creek, and considerable business is transacted there. The houses are extended along the highway for some distance. There are several stores and a blacksmith shop. The physician resident at the place is Dr. C. C. Housmeyer. A good macad¬ amized highway extends through the township, leading from Dillsboro to Friendship and Versailles, in Ripley county. The township, while the small¬ est of any in the county, is at the same time one of the most thrifty, and the people of the township are strictly law abiding and abreast of the times in everything that goes to make up good citizenship.
Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.
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 Caesar Creek Township - 2,990 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Lutheran Church and School between 2004 and 2005, burning about 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Dillsboro | $40,000 | The tornado touched down in the 8800 block of Davies Road. The tornado continued to travel southeast, destroying barns and damaging roofs and trees for about 1 mile. ||Based on the degree of damage, the tornado produced winds of around 75 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | $3,000 | Two trees were downed. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | $3,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced winds that knocked down several trees. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | $3,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | $2,000 | A few trees were reported knocked down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Dillsboro | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Dillsboro | - | Elder Lane was impassable due to high water. |
| April 2014 | Flood | Dillsboro | - | Three roads were closed due to standing water caused by heavy rainfall. These roads included State Route 262 in Dillsboro, Huesman Road, and Laughery Creek Road. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Dillsboro | - | High water covered Spangler Road. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Dillsboro | - | An isolated severe thunderstorm quickly developed over Dearborn County during the very early morning hours of the 23rd. The storm produced dime size hail in Dillsboro. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Dillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Dillsboro | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dillsboro | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Hill Farm | 6.6 miles | 2025 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000289 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Dearborn County | All 26 listed properties in this county. |
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