Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing Company was formed by George B. and Harry Wadsworth in 1904. George received his first patent for an electrical service entrance safety switch in 1907.”
Wikipedia article Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 1994 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 20 W. 11th St., Covington, 41011
When was it listed? January 1994
Category. building
Census division. Covington
National Register reference number. 93001585 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing Company: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Avril Co/ Cincinnati, Ohio	Tin, Lead, Antimony	Unknown

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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
May 1996	Lightning	Covington	1 hurt, $50,000	no account filed
July 2013	Flash Flood	Covington	$50,000	In addition to other flash flooding in the area, basements were flooded in Covington and Park Hills due to heavy rainfall.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$30,000	Trees were downed throughout Covington due to thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees fell on cars.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$10,000	A tree fell onto a car on Garrard Street.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Covington	$10,000	Several cars were floating in high water due to heavy rainfall.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$10,000	Several trees were downed throughout the city. One tree fell on a house, causing some minor roof damage.
December 2000	Flash Flood	Covington	$10,000	Heavy rainfall caused Banklick Creek to flood Pioneer Park and Cody road.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$8,000	A large tree was blown on to a house in Covington, causing major structural damage.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	Several trees were downed.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	A roof was partially torn off of an apartment building due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2008	Flood	Covington	$5,000	Several roads were flooded and closed. Banklick Creek was out of its banks in a few locations.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were downed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	County DES reported several trees uprooted. Power lines blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$3,000	Numerous trees downed.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Covington	$2,000	Several roads and underpasses were flooded. In addition, some cars were struck in high water.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	A large tree was knocked down along W. 10th St. near Russell Street.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	Six to ten inch diameter branches were torn from several trees on the south side of town.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Covington	$1,000	Two to three feet of water was over a road due to heavy rainfall.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Covington	$1,000	About three feet of water covered an intersection due to heavy rainfall.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Covington	-	Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Covington	-	High water was reported at Madison Ave. and 17th Street.
March 2006	Flash Flood	Covington	-	Several roads were flooded.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Covington	-	Banklick Creek rose out of its banks, flooding portions of Pioneer Park. Several roads were flooded and closed as well.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Covington	-	River Road flooded and was closed.
April 2024	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenton 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
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption	0.1 miles	1973
Covington Downtown Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	2001
Seminary Square Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Kenton County Library	0.2 miles	1972
Covington Downtown Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	1991
Emery-Price Historic District	0.2 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001585 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kenton County	All 76 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.