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Photograph of Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company
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Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Whitlock and Company are two historic industrial buildings located at Rising Sun, Indiana. The main building consists of six interconnected buildings: the Whitlock Office, Whitlock Garage, Clore Wood Shop, Clore Machine Shop, the Forge, and the Engine Room.”

Wikipedia article Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Ohio County · listed in 1999 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Clore Plow Works--J.W. Whitlock and Company - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 212 S. Walnut St., Rising Sun, 47040
  • When was it listed? September 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Randolph township
  • National Register reference number. 99001152 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company: 2 producers. 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
Burlington SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O'Day Excavating & Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising Sun, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail. 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
January 2000Flash FloodRising Sun$100,000Heavy rainfall caused Bear Creek Road to be closed. Also, the 4th Street Bridge in Rising Sun was washed out.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$25,000Damage occurred to both the high school and elementary-middle schools allowing leaks to produce some water damage.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$25,000A large tree was uprooted and fell on a ranch style house, collapsing part of the home.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$20,000Numerous trees and large branches in Rising Sun where knocked down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$20,000A barn was knocked down and destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was blown off of a garage and a tree was snapped due to the winds.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$10,000A home was damaged and the exterior walls of a barn were collapsed.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$10,000The press box at the high school softball field was destroyed and blown into the road.
January 2005Flash FloodRising Sun$10,000Several roads in and around town were flooded and closed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$8,000A car park roof was uplifted and a small outbuilding sustained damage.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$5,000A few trees were blown down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$5,000Numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1997Flash FloodRising Sun$5,000Heavy rainfall caused Rt. 56 to flood to the north of Rising Sun.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$4,000Several trees were downed in the Rising Sun area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Numerous trees and limbs were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and powerlines were downed.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000A few large tree limbs were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees and limbs were downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Numerous trees downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000Trees knocked down.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$3,000no account filed
March 2019Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000A couple of trees were downed along Nelson Road outside of Rising Sun.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000A tree fell onto a power line near 2nd Street.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000One tree and one large limb were knocked down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000Large limbs were knocked down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$2,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000A large tree was uprooted along Main Street.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000One tree was knocked down on Nelson Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$100Several large tree limbs were downed.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindRising Sun-The public relayed the wind gust report.
May 2004Flash FloodRising Sun-Nelson Road was flooded and impassable.
May 2004Flash FloodRising Sun-Roads were flooded near State Route 56.
May 2003Flash FloodRising Sun-Heavy rains washed debris onto State Route 262, closing that road for a short period of time.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRising Sun-Winds gusted to 60 mph.
April 2025HailRising Sun-no account filed
October 2016HailRising Sun-no account filed
April 2005HailRising Sun-no account filed
April 1998HailRising Sun-no account filed
April 1995HailRising Sun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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

2 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
Rising Sun Historic Districtunder 500 feet2006
Speakman-Miller-Kittle Farm5.4 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ohio CountyAll 3 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.
  • 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.