Secrest Ferry Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Secrest Ferry Bridge is a historic Pennsylvania through truss bridge located in Bean Blossom Township, Monroe County, Indiana and Wayne Township, Owen County, Indiana. It was built by the Lafayette Engineering Co. and Vincennes Bridge Co. in 1903.”
Wikipedia article Secrest Ferry Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Owen County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rt. 450 E over the W. fork of the White River, Gosport, 47433
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 96000603 - 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.

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 Secrest Ferry Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Dunn Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	Indiana Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gosport, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$20,000	Thunderstorm wind downed large trees into power lines. Reported via twitter with video.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Gosport	$20,000	This tornado formed near Marley Road and Old Boundary Line Road in Owen County. The tornado tracked 3.02 miles to the northeast while in Owen County and passed through Gosport. The tornado moved into Morgan County while moving through an open field. The field is located 3,500 feet east of Drunkards Pike, 1,000 feet north of South Lingle Road, and 1,300 feet south of State Road 67. The tornado continued to the northeast for 1.05 miles in Morgan County before lifting 1,000 feet east of South Vickery Road between State Road 67 and South Lingle Road. This made the total path of the tornado 4.07 miles. The tornado was rated EF-0 while in both counties with wind speeds around 80 miles per hour. The tornado lasted from 1912 to 1916 EST while in Owen County and from 1916 to 1917 EST while in Morgan County. Overall, the tornado was on the ground from 1912 to 1917. The width of the tornado at its peak in both counties was approximately 175 yards. While in Owen County minor damage was sustained to trees, a gas station, a fire station, and residences. While in Morgan County trees, barns, and residences were affected by the tornado. Two young girls were caught outside on property that received the most extensive damage in Morgan County from this tornado. They received minor cuts, scrapes, and bruises from flying debris.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$17,000	Supercell thunderstorm straight line winds gusted to 58-83 mph for 8 minutes from 2202 to 2210 EST, downing at least 3 trees amid dime-sized hail and horizontal rain. Also, a nearby large tree was downed into a barn.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$15,000	Trained spotter measured a 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Trees and power lines reported down from thunderstorm wind gusts as well.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$10,000	Several large trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$7,000	Numerous trees were downed or snapped off above the ground near State Route 67 just north of Gosport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$6,000	A garage door was blown in due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$5,000	Trees, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some corn was flattened as well.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$4,000	Trees were downed and blocking the road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$2,000	Several large tree limbs downed across the road by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	$2,000	Trees were downed and fencing was damaged at a drive-in movie theater near Gosport.
April 2010	Hail	Gosport	$500	Hail to the size of golf balls broke the windshield of a spotter's car.
April 2010	Hail	Gosport	-	WRTV forwarded a report of 3.25 inch hail in Gosport.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	A tree at the corner of 7th Street and Greencastle Avenue was toppled. A large tree nearly 100 yards from the 10 O'clock Treaty Line Monument on SR 67 was uprooted. At the corner of SR 67 and Louisa Street a large tree had the majority of its branches snapped off.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	Trees and limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Hail	Gosport	-	No property damage reported.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	Trees down
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	Numerous trees were downed.
June 2023	Hail	Gosport	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Gosport	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Gosport	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Gosport	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Gosport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Dr. H. G. Osgood House	1.4 miles	1999
Gosport Historic District	1.4 miles	2013
Secrest-Wampler House	1.8 miles	2002
Stone Arch Bridge over McCormick's Creek	3.6 miles	1993
CCC Recreation Building-Nature Museum	3.9 miles	1993
McCormick's Creek State Park Entrance and Gatehouse	4.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Owen County	All 17 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.