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Photograph of Elam Jones Public House
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Jones, Elam, Public House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 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 32 National Register listings in Trumbull County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Trumbull County.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3365 OH 7, Hartford, 44404
  • When was it listed? 2003-01-08
  • Category. building
  • Township. Hartford township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001687 - 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jones, Elam, Public House between 2020 and 2020, 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
24 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15692

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 180 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 180 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jones, Elam, Public House between 1893 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Bednarik, K. (Karl), Brown, Fred 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates sylvaticus, not of this specimenLithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Regina septemvittata, not of this specimenRegina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data

All 180 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHartford$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A small garage was also knocked down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHartford-Trees downed in Hartford.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHartford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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

13,283 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 A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses nigh artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance distinguishable entity who's components lack D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

(Mark "X" in all boxes that apply.) 1828, 1844, 1846, 1862 Property is: A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person (complete if Criterion B is marked) B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property Linus Parker, Builder (Barn) within the past 50 years.

Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: preliminary determination of individual listing (36 State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested Other State Agency previously listed in the National Register Previously determined eligible by the National designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Personal Collection of Chris & Diane Klingemier recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1828-1862 Register Commerce Other Politics/Government Exploration/Settlement University Criteria Considerations N/A individual distinction.

Bibliography (See Continuation Sheet) Local Government Federal Agency Architect/Builder County and State Social History (Enter categories from instructions) Significant Dates 9.

The whole case file for this property - 13,283 words, 57 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 02001687, 57 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001687 in Record Group 79.
Trumbull CountyAll 32 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.