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Photograph of Masonic Lodge No. 472
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Masonic Lodge #472

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“The Masonic Lodge No. 472 is an Italianate building in Zaleski, Ohio that was built in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Masonic Lodge No. 472, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 6 National Register listings in Vinton County · listed in 2000 · 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. 18 Commercial St., Zaleski, 45698
  • When was it listed? 2000-03-09
  • Category. building
  • Township. Madison township
  • National Register reference number. 00000182 - 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

20 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Lodge #472 between 2012 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12125
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15691
21 April 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11525
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3634

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,220 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,220 specimens collected within 10 miles of Masonic Lodge #472 between 1900 and 1975: 1,121 Animalia, 53 Plantae, 44 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., Atkinson and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 18231900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 18621900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 18101900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,220 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zaleski, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 flood, 1 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindZaleski$500,000Winds measured at 80 mph at the Zaleski State Forest Ranger Station from a microburst. Trees were downed in the vicinity, a mobile home was destroyed, and a barn roof was removed.
April 2005Flash FloodZaleski$5,000Small streams, such as Wheelabout Creek, that flow into Racoon Creek overflowed onto roads. Rains of 1.75 to 2.25 inches fell in less than 3 hours. Route 50 was blocked.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindZaleski$5,000Trees were downed.
September 2020Flash FloodZaleski$2,000State Route 278 flooded at Lake Hope between New Plymouth and Zaleski.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindZaleski$2,000Trees and a power line were blown down along State Route 278.
June 2008Flash FloodZaleski$2,000Small streams flooded roads and fields, but no evacuations were reported.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindZaleski$2,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindZaleski$2,000no account filed
February 2018FloodZaleski$1,000State Route 278 was closed due to high water from Wheelabout Creek.
April 2025FloodZaleski-State Route 677 was closed from US 50 to Adleman Street due to flooding.
November 2017FloodZaleski-Following flash flooding early on the 6th, high water lingered along Raccoon Creek into the early morning hours of the 9th. At Bolins Mills, the creek crested at 15 feet, or one foot above bankfull, during the afternoon of the 8th, and returned within its banks just before sunrise on the 9th. The flooding along Raccoon Creek cause water to pool in several low spots along Route 50 and nearby agricultural land.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindZaleski-Trees fell down along Route 50.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindZaleski-Trees were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindZaleski-Trees were blown down along Route 677.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindZaleski-Trees and large branches were blown down.
May 2001HailZaleski-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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.

From the nomination file

4,875 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) XX A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance distinguishable entity whose components lack - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations Significant Dates (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. C D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. The Stuart Company - Chillicothe, Chio Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 4,875 words, 46 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 00000182, 46 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
Hope Furnace4.5 miles1973
Trinity Episcopal Church5.2 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000182 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vinton CountyAll 6 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.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • 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.