Pugh Ford Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Pugh Ford Bridge, also known as Bartholomew County Bridge No. 73, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge spanning the Flatrock River at Flat Rock Township and German Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana. It was built by the Elkhart Bridge and Iron Co. and built in 1911.”
Wikipedia article Pugh Ford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bartholomew County · listed in 1999 · 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. Cty. Rd. 900 N over Flat Rock River, Taylorsville, 46124
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. structure
Township. German township
National Register reference number. 99001103 - 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pugh Ford Bridge between 2001 and 2005, burning about 13 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/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	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
16 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 November 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorsville, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	1 hurt, $100,000	Trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts damaged five cars and an RV with an injury in the RV.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Taylorsville	$500,000	Numerous roads closed across the county due to flash flooding. 2 dams went into elevated risk for failure. Total rainfall was between 1.7 and 2.5 inches.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds snapped two wooden power poles and a center-pivot sprinkler was overturned in the field north of County Road 800 North.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$10,000	Large billboard blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts. Measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust by a trained spotter.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs in the area and folded over a highway sign. Received via Twitter.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts sheared off two 18-inch diameter live trees approximately 50 feet up and they fell on a house.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$5,000	Power lines downed by tree limbs that were knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008	Flash Flood	Taylorsville	$5,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding in multiple locations across the county.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	$3,000	Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	-	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
June 2022	Hail	Taylorsville	-	Thunderstorm produced a few half-dollar hailstones with much quarter-sized hail northwest of the Interstate 65 and US Highway 31 interchange.
May 2009	Flood	Taylorsville	-	Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in and near Columbus, Indiana. The river crested half a foot above flood stage at the Columbus river gauge on May 16th at a reading of 9.5 feet.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	-	Several trees were downed.
April 2006	Hail	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Taylorsville	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylorsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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
James Marr House and Farm	5.4 miles	1980
New Hope Bridge	5.8 miles	1999
Hope Historic District	5.9 miles	1991
First Baptist Church	6.9 miles	2000
North Christian Church	7.5 miles	2000
Irwin Union Bank and Trust, Eastbrook Plaza Branch	7.7 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bartholomew County	All 23 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.