Gallipolis Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1908.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Gallia County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by 3rd Ave., Vine and Spruce Sts. and the Ohio R., Gallipolis
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. district
National Register reference number. 01000899 - 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.

Then and now

1908 to 1981

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Gallipolis Historic District, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet covering Gallipolis Historic District, surveyed 1908

Fires near this property

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Gallipolis Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5606
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8687
15 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	REDMOND RIDGE ROAD
17 July 1999	Debris and open burning	16 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	PRIVATE FARM RD
15 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	KRODEL POND
3 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5005

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gallipolis Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Eppling Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mt Epling Gallipolis Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thompson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Thompson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Gallipolis Journal	1837 to 1919

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1908 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1926 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Gallipolis quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Gallipolis quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

4 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
Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District	under 500 feet	1980
Gatewood	0.2 miles	1986
Our House	0.3 miles	1970
Ohio Hospital For Epileptics Stone Water Towers	1.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000899 in Record Group 79.
Gallia County	All 9 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.
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.