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Photograph of Venoge Farmstead
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Venoge Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Venoge Farmstead, also known as Musee de Venoge, is a historic home and farm located in Craig Township, Switzerland County, Indiana. The house was built in 1828, and is a rectangular frame cottage in a vernacular French Colonial style.”

Wikipedia article Venoge Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Switzerland County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 111 IN 129, Vevay, 47043
  • When was it listed? January 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Craig township
  • Architectural style. American colonial architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96001539 - 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

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Venoge Farmstead in 2004, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Venoge Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Switzerland Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Switzerland County

Storms near this property

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vevay, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindVevay$50,000no account filed
April 2005HailVevay$20,000no account filed
April 2017Flash FloodVevay$10,000A road was closed and water was reported in the lower levels of homes in Vevay.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVevay$8,000Several trees were downed on the east side of Vevay, primarily along Ohio Street and East Seminary Street.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000Trees down around Vevay and near Markland Dam.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodVevay$5,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindVevay$4,000Several trees were reported down across the county due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000A few trees were knocked down along State Route 56 outside of Vevay.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Trees were knocked down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Two trees fell in town.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Trees downed.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindVevay$2,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodVevay$2,000High water was reported over roads countywide due to heavy rainfall.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindVevay$2,000Trees were downed throughout town.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000A few large branches were downed onto power lines.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000One large tree was downed on Market Street and a few other tree limbs were downed in the town of Vevay due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2018Flash FloodVevay-Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
June 2009HailVevay-Three quarters of an inch to one inch hail was reported.
March 2006Flash FloodVevay-State Route 56 was flooded in town.
July 2003Flash FloodVevay-High water and debris closed State Route 56.
May 2002Flash FloodVevay-Cole Road was closed by high water.
March 2024HailVevay-no account filed
March 2023HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
March 2012HailVevay-no account filed
March 2012HailVevay-no account filed
April 2006HailVevay-no account filed
May 2004HailVevay-no account filed
February 2002HailVevay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Switzerland 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
Benjamin Schenck Mansion1.3 miles2002
Edward and George Cary Eggleston House1.4 miles1973
Switzerland County Courthouse1.5 miles2009
Vevay Historic District1.6 miles2019
Old Hoosier Theatre1.6 miles1982
Thiebaud Farmstead1.9 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001539 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Switzerland CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.