Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2001. 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 James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is a historic farm situated in western Darke County, Ohio, United States. Located at 467 Stingley Road, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Indiana border, it is among the oldest remaining buildings of a small community of free African-Americans founded before the Civil War.”
Wikipedia article James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 25 National Register listings in Darke County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.01000199- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 401 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 401 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Clemens, James and Sophia, Farmstead between 1895 and
1973: 375 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A VERWYST, A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Alexander 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Palestine, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood.
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.
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
7,104 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
Areas of Significance for National Register listing ) EA Property is associated with events that have made FB Property is associated with the lives of persons - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply) Property is: CA owned by a religious institution or used to: _ C a birthplace or grave _Clenens,_ James _ D a cemetery C E a reconstructed bullding, object, or structure. C F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 01000199, 35 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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