Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2002. 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 Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ is a historic church in the village of Pleasant Hill in the western part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Built in the early twentieth century, it was the fourth building used as the home of one of the area's oldest congregations, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Miami County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02000881- 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.
The ground it stands on
58,421 words
The chapter on Newton Township in The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880 names Pleasant Hill. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The town was for many years called Newton, after the township, which, Dy the way, was named in honor of the philosopher, Sir Isaac. The ground upon which it is situated was surveyed by James Hauks, and laid out by J. K. leewr, May 26, 1843. The original plat consisted of eight lots, all west of Main stree , which bounded them on the east, and which was sixty-six feet wide then, but subsequently had its width increased to eighty feet The lots were 132 with seventy-five feet front, and were divided by two cross streets, viz., High an North, each forty-nine and one-half feet wide. These streets are now eighty tee wide, while the cross-streets which intersect Main on the east, are sixty-six tee wide. After having been laid out, the growth of the village rapidly increased, and in 1850, became of so much importance that it was decided, for general con^ venience, to move the post office from Coppock's mill to Newton. The post om had first been kept about one mile southeast from town, and, from the beautiful spot of its location, was called Pleasant Hill. It was moved from he in about 1840, to Coppock's mill, and was kept awhile in the mill, but it sn retained its first name, and, upon its being removed to Newton, it was decided, order to prevent all irregularities in regard to postal matters, to change the nam of Newton to Pleasant Hill, which was accordingly done. After the removal o the office here, John Whitmore became Postmaster, which position he retain five or six years. At present, the position is filled by Mr. J. Reiber, a brave so* dier in the late rebellion, who, in a single engagement, was the target wni received five leaden bullets while battling for the Union under the banner of old Stars and Stripes.
The Congregational Brethren Church of Pleasant Hill was organized in c fall of 1876. The officers were as follows: Presiding Elder, John Cadwalladcr Elder, Jacob Crurarine; Minister and Secretary, Elias Teeter; Deacon, Panic Deeter. Present officers : W. G. Ullery, Elias Teeter and Jacob Cramnne, Elders , M. Deeter and Samuel It. Deeter, Deacons ; W. II. Cadwalladcr, Secretary ; n unap Mikescll, Treasurer. The present frame edifice was built a few years since and is a neat structure, whose congregation consists of a goodly number of devout worshipers. , ,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 397 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ between 1835 and
1973: 366 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A V DEL, A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin 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 federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pleasant Hill, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 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.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
(Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property -A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of 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 high artistic values, or represents a significant - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) XA owned by a religious institution or used for (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - B removed from its original location. - D a cemetery. -E a reconstructed building, object,or structure.
- F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. Schenck & Williams of Dayton, Ohio - Architects 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 02000881, 50 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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.
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