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Photograph of Reuben Benedict House
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Benedict, Reuben, House

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

one of 15 National Register listings in Morrow County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 1463 Cty. Rd. 24, Marengo, 43334
  • When was it listed? 2000-05-08
  • Category. building
  • Township. Peru township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00000419 - 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Benedict, Reuben, House between 2012 and 2012, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning1

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
16 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 404 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Benedict, Reuben, House between 1835 and 1975: 281 Animalia, 82 Fungi, 30 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 Phyllosticta ampelopsidis SpeschnewPhyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew1883KellermanOhio
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.1890A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, s.loc.
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Sagittaria latifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria latifolia Willd.1837Frank B
A photograph of the species Sicyos angulatus, not of this specimenSicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius1837Frank Bin civitatate Ohio
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio

All 404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marengo, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 1998LightningMarengo$20,000A lightning strike blew the tops off two 6000 gallon oil tanks. Only 150 gallons spilled out and a small fire was quickly extinguished.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMarengo$12,000The Sheriff's Office reported several limbs down in Morrow County and power lines down on State Route 229 in Marengo.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMarengo$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees between Marengo and Sparta.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMarengo$10,000Many trees and limbs downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000A 66 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured. Several four inch diameter tree limbs were downed by the thunderstorm winds.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000A few trees were reported down, along with power lines.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000A 66 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured near Marengo. At least two large trees were downed.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMarengo$4,000Multiple trees downed in Marengo. The downed trees destroyed a couple fences.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMarengo$2,000A few trees and power lines were reported down in Bennington Township located in southern Morrow County.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarengo$2,000A tree and large limb were reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarengo$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarengo$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMarengo-Several trees downed in Marengo.
June 2013HailMarengo-The media relayed a report of quarter size hail.
May 2012HailMarengo-Nickel to quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailMarengo-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail.
August 2008HailMarengo-Penny size hail was observed.
May 2004HailMarengo-Nickel size hail was observed near Marengo.
July 1997HailMarengo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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

7,780 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 X A Property is associated with events that have Social History/Underground Railroad made a significant contribution to the broad Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance nigh artistic values, or represents a significant ca. 1828 and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. LD Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

Significant Dates Criteria Considerations Significant Person B removed from its original location. Cultural Affiliation - D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 7,780 words, 37 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 00000419, 37 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

1 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
Brown, Samuel, P., House2.5 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000419 in Record Group 79.
Morrow CountyAll 15 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.