60 topographic sheets and 9 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.
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8 National Register listings · 27 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1895 to 1948 · the 1887 county history tells 0 stories and names 0 people.
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Caldwell, Samuel, House | building | 1980 | 80003201 |
 | Danford, Samuel, Farm, Church and Cemetery | building | 1980 | 80003204 |
 | Huffman Covered Bridge | structure | 1975 | 75001513 |
 | Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office | building | 2004 | 04000060 |
 | St. Henry Roman Catholic Church and Rectory | building | 1982 | 82001485 |
 | St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception | building | 1980 | 80003202 |
 | Williams, Abner, Log House | building | 1979 | 79001923 |
 | Young-Shaw House | building | 1980 | 80003203 |
Noble County holds 1 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.
| Huffman Covered Bridge | Listed 1975, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
Caldwell, Ohio, 1934 to 1961. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.
Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 3 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.
Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. 542 frames touch this county; the selection below spreads across the decades of flights (at most four per year), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.
The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that watched its rivers, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.
Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.
Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 5 of these 27 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.
Depot
1911 to 1932, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Depot. at Sarahsville.
Ice House
1932 to 1948, named in 2 atlases
On the National Register as Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 126 of them, burning about 436 acres. 2 started naturally and 4 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16016 |
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15706 |
| 23 October 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | NOBLE CO. ASSIST |
| 18 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4728 |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15861 |
| 27 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Wayne National Forest | NOBLE COUNTY LINE |
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 247 reports for this county, causing 6 deaths, 1 injury and about $11,465,200 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 112 |
| Flash Flood | 55 |
| Flood | 45 |
| Hail | 30 |
| Tornado | 3 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | 5 killed, $10,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Summerfield | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $75,000 | no account filed |
| December 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Mt Zion | $80,000 | Media reported that flooding caused evacuations along State Route 821 between Belle Valley and Cambridge. Also the local emergency manager reported numerous roads closed due to flash flooding. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Caldwell | $50,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous roads closed with some completely impassable due to flash flooding. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $50,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees down throughout the county. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Caldwell | $50,000 | Emergency management reported State Route 821 between Caldwell and Glenwood was closed in sections due to flooding. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Sarahsville | $50,000 | Emergency management reported sections of State Routes 146 and 147 near Sarahsville closed due to flash flooding. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $50,000 | Roof blown off state highway garage. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $40,000 | Trees and power lines down in Caldwell, Florence, Sarahsville. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $35,000 | Law enforcement reported several trees down in and around Caldwell. |
| November 2011 | Flood | Berne | $35,000 | Emergency management reported Route 260 near Route 78 closed due to flooding. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $35,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down east of Caldwell. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | $30,000 | Emergency management reported numerous trees down in the Summerfield area. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Summerfield | $30,000 | Emergency management reported State Route 146 closed in sections by flash flooding in the Summerfield area. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarahsville | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Ephraim | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down north of Sarahsville. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell Airpark Arp | $25,000 | Emergency management reported damage to a hangor roof at the Noble County Airport from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrietsville | $20,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Berne | $20,000 | The 911 Call Center reported Route 260 closed due to flash flooding. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coal Ridge | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled a large antenna tower. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $20,000 | Four trees blown down by thunderstorm winds. One tree fell onto a house and caused damage to the siding. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moundville | $15,000 | Law enforcement reports of numerous trees and power lines down across county, primarily north of Moundsville. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees down across county. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $11,500 | Power outages were reported across Noble County. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $10,000 | Trees were reported to be down in Caldwell. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middleburg | $10,000 | Pictures were provided of damage to a home caused by a large tree limb, with some roof damage. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Union | $10,000 | A report of several uprooted trees was relayed. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Florence | $10,000 | Department of highways reported that state route 821 was closed in both directions between mile mark 0 and mile marker 7 and again at mile marker 12 due to high water. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Dexter City | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported flash flooding with State Route 821 closed. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Batesville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported SR 147 closed due to flash flooding. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dudley | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Mt Zion | $10,000 | The 911 Call Center reported Route 146 closed due to flash flooding between pleasant City and Sarahsville. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across the county. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $8,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $8,000 | Trees and power lines down. [CORRECTED TIME] |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Renrock | $7,000 | Large trees blown down onto SR 83. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Coal Ridge | $5,000 | State official reported that state Route 821 closed due to flash flooding in several locations. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Sarahsville | $5,000 | Emergency manager reported that Route 285 was flooded in one lane and temporarily closed. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flag | $5,000 | Four trees were reported to be down across Ayers Ridge Road. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrietsville | $5,000 | Trees were reported down on Smithberger Drive and Old Church Road. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Caldwell | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused several roads throughout the county to close due to flooding. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiramsburg | $5,000 | Trees were reported to be blown down on Gorby Run Road. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell Airpark Arp | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down in Wolf Run State Park. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Ephraim | $5,000 | Trees were reported to be blown down on State Route 147. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seneraville Res | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down on Harrington Lane. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seneraville Res | $5,000 | A few trees were downed by wind across Briar Hill Road. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarahsville | $5,000 | Tree were reported to be blown down along Route 285 south of Sarahsville. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarahsville | $5,000 | State official reported trees down along State Route 215, 285, and 147. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Batesville | $5,000 | Emergency Manager reported several trees down. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarahsville | $5,000 | Emergency management reported numerous trees down. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coal Ridge | $5,000 | Emergency Management reported trees down. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | $5,000 | Emergency Management reported numerous trees down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $5,000 | Local law enforcement reported trees down on Route 564. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berne | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiramsburg | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported numerous 80-foot pine trees snapped off at around 35-40 feet. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 6 workings inside this county. 3 still produce and 3 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 3 |
| Clay | 2 |
| Limestone, General | 1 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence King Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ava Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ava Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| King Quarries Extension | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| King Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Merrill Brothers Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 254 of them, by kingdom 206 animalia, 41 plantae, 6 fungi, 1 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), CM, Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), USNM, UMMZ, Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.
The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.
| Photograph | Year | Species | Kingdom | Where | Collector | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1853 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 2476 |
 | 1853 | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 83508 |
 | 1853 | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 2179 |
 | 1853 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 7576 |
| 1853 | Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 1477 | |
 | 1853 | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | Animalia | Marietta | not recorded | USNM USNM 1000 |
 | 1860 | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | Animalia | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek | unknown | CUMV A-0011880 |
 | 1883 | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | Animalia | Marietta | Albert Hazen Wright | CUMV A-0000009 |
History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 3 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.
| Shape and position in the county | Township | Settlements in it | Length | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Township | Glenwood, Mount Zion | 86,603 words | 54 | |
| Noble Township | Ava, Belle Valley, Coal Ridge, Florence, Hiramsburg, Hoskinsville, Rochester, Slaters | 117,563 words | 17 | |
| Stock Township | Carlisle, Cliffyville, East Union | 135,797 words | 141 |
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the watercourse or landform it stands on and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
Olive township · 43724 · On Salt Run · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Fire insurance: 9 atlases
Noble township · 43717 · On Wolf Run · Caldwell North quadrangle
13 sheets, 1911 to 1994
Center township · 43779 · On High Hill · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Stock township · 43724 · Stafford quadrangle
14 sheets, 1903 to 2002
No longer a settlement
Jefferson township · 45727 · On Buffalo Run · Macksburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1903 to 1994
Stock township · 43779 · On West Fork East Fork Duck Creek · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Center township · 43779 · On Little Buffalo Creek · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Brookfield township · 43724 · Cumberland quadrangle
14 sheets, 1911 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Jackson township · 43724 · On Schriver Fork · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Seneca township · 43779 · On Beatty Knob · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Seneca township · 43780 · On Mud Run · Senecaville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Sharon township · 43724 · On Browns Knob · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Jefferson township · 43724 · Macksburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1903 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Brookfield township · 43732 · On Blanchard Run · Cumberland quadrangle
14 sheets, 1911 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Sharon township · 43724 · On Dinner Fork · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Noble township · 43724 · On North Fork Buffalo Creek · Caldwell North quadrangle
13 sheets, 1911 to 1994
Center township · 43779 · On South Fork Buffalo Creek · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Brookfield township · 43732 · On Lick Run · Caldwell North quadrangle
13 sheets, 1911 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Marion township · 43788 · On Barnes Ridge · Summerfield quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 2002
Wayne township · 43773 · In Yoker Valley · Quaker City quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Marion township · 43788 · On Lexington Ridge · Summerfield quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 2002
Olive township · 43724 · On Old Tom Ridge · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Center township · 43779 · On High Hill · Sarahsville quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
13 topographic sheets and 9 fire insurance atlases, 1885 to 1948
The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.
The vanished settlements of Noble County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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