Huffman Mill Covered Bridge

Built in 1864. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Huffman Mill Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Anderson River in Anderson Township, Perry County, and Harrison Township, Spencer County, Indiana. It was built in 1864-1865, and is a 148-foot-long, Burr arch truss wood, stone, and steel bridge.”
Wikipedia article Huffman Mill Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Spencer County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1864.

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. Rd. 1490 N over Anderson R, Fulda, 47588
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. structure
When was it built? 1864
National Register reference number. 98000299 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Huffman Mill Covered Bridge between 2000 and 2004, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning	5

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
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SULPHUR VALLEY
13 April 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BRISTOW-ST MEINRAD
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BRISTOW
19 February 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	CANDLESTICK FIRE
18 February 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ST JOE

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulda, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2006	Hail	Fulda	-	Received through the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulda	-	Several trees were blown down over eastern portions of the county.
June 2006	Hail	Fulda	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Boniface Church	3.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000299 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spencer County	All 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.
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.