A fire destroyed Sheridan's records; storms threaten what's left
Sheridan lost most of its early municipal records in a 1913 fire that destroyed the town hall, which makes documenting a home's construction history harder after a storm event — all the more reason to photograph and document water damage immediately rather than rely on assumptions about how a Sheridan home was originally built.
A small, slow-growing town with older roofing stock
With just 3,106 residents as of the 2020 census, Sheridan's housing stock skews older than Carmel's faster-growing neighbors, and older roofing near the historic Main Street corridor, built up along the Monon Railroad after natural gas was discovered locally in 1888, is more likely to let wind-driven rain through during the kind of severe thunderstorm and tornado activity that hits central Indiana most years.