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
“Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder (Enter categories from instructions) Aowned bya religious institution or used for religious purpose D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in Huron County, OH page (Mark"X" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our C a birthplace ora grave. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Miller-Bissell Farmstead New London Township, Huron County, Ohio SECTION The Miller-Bissell Farmstead is on the west side of a rural highway, State Route formerly known as the Clarksfield Road, two miles north of the Village of New London, Huron County, Ohio.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Miller--Bissell Farmstead. Machine-read text.
one of 15 National Register listings in Huron County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02001058- 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 565 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 565 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Miller--Bissell Farmstead between 1887 and
1975: 376 Plantae, 114 Animalia, 71 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, C. E. Jennings, C. Rutter 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
1 working within 5 miles of Miller--Bissell Farmstead: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
New London, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado briefly touched down near New London. Around 200 trees were blown down. The roof of a barn on State Route 60 was blown off and two other barns just east of town were completely destroyed. Two businesses in New London also suffered roof damage.
Several trees were downed in Monroeville. Damage was more widespread in New London were trees and limbs were downed, some on power lines, and signs were blown down.
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
11,000 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 (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history - B removed from its original location. - D a cemetery [X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a - F a commemorative property. significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack - G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the 50 years.
Areas of Significance Significant Dates 1845 Period of Significance Significant Person N/A (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation N/A Narrative Statement of Significance See Continuation page 13 and following (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 1911 Architecture Property is: listing) prehistory or history. Agriculture individual distinction.
Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder (Enter categories from instructions) Aowned bya religious institution or used for religious purpose D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in Huron County, OH page 4 (Mark"X" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our C a birthplace ora grave.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Miller-Bissell Farmstead New London Township, Huron County, Ohio SECTION 7 NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION The Miller-Bissell Farmstead is on the west side of a rural highway, State Route 60, formerly known as the Clarksfield Road, two miles north of the Village of New London, Huron County, Ohio.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 02001058, 52 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.
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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