Old Timbers

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Old Timbers is a historic home located within Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge in Shelby Township, Ripley County, Indiana. It was built in 1932, and is a Bungalow / American Craftsman style stone building.”
Wikipedia article Old Timbers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Ripley 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. US Army Jefferson Proving Ground, approximately .5 mi. SE of jct. of K Rd. and Northeast Exit, Madison
When was it listed? July 1996
Category. building
Township. Shelby township
National Register reference number. 96000786 - 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.

Fires near this property

31 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Old Timbers between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,994 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Firearms and explosives use	2

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
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	280 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	K ROAD FIRE
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 9 FIRE
6 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 3 FIRE
28 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 5 FIRE
26 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 4 FIRE
5 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	2100 CENTE
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE FIRE
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SHUNK FARM FIRE

Every fire recorded in Ripley 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

3 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
Collin's Ford Bridge	1.1 miles	1996
Otter Creek Covered Bridge	5.6 miles	2019
Marble Creek Bridge	6.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000786 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ripley 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.
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.