Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“Mooresville Gymnasium, also known as the Newby Dome, is a historic school gymnasium located at Mooresville, Indiana. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, rectangular, Classical Revival style wood-frame building sheathed in "oriental brick".”
Wikipedia article Mooresville Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.97000598- 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
2 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mooresville Gymnasium
between 2005 and 2007, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
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
7 April 2007
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
7 October 2005
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office
not named
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 Mooresville Gymnasium: 6 producers, 2 past producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Mooresville, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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.
The tornado began northwest of the intersection of concord and main in Mooresville before doing significant roof and tree damage to portions of downtown. The largest damage occurred to a brick building where the roof was uplifted and fell causing structural damage to the building. The tornado continued to track to the southeast before damaging a large picnic shelter and crossing State Road 67. The tornado then |lifted. In addition to the tornado, an area about 200 yards on either side of the tornado experienced straight line winds that gusted as high as 70 to 80 mph that caused additional damage.
A microburst brought significant damage to portions of Mooresville. Several small trees had tree trunks snapped. Roof damage was common with widespread tree limbs snapped. Damage was fairly isolated but significant. Video of the event showed very intense winds.
Water rescues and home evacuations occurred in Mooresville because of flash flooding due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. This report was relay via broadcast media from Twitter.
A dam break upstream, along with heavy rainfall, caused flooding along the East Fork White Lick Creek in the Mooresville, Indiana area. As of mid to late afternoon on June 22nd water was up to business properties and crossing Old State Road 67. Property damage estimate is greatly estimated.
A storm chaser reported a 12 to 15 inch diameter tree down in Mooresville due to thunderstorm wind gusts. This spotter also estimated winds at around 65 miles per hour.
A resident in the Roberson Woods subdivision in Mooresville, Indiana lost two giant shag-bark walnut trees and received roof damage to a little lake house. Another resident on the entrance road to the subdivision also had a giant tree down between two properties, laying on a roof. Other fallen limbs, mud and debris were all over Landersdale Road on the east side of the subdivision. Time of occurrence is greatly estimated.
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.
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.
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