Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2004. 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
“Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Agriculture Period of Significance Architecture Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) D a cemetery. Garlinghouse Company Significant Dates Homer Ackley Cultural Affiliation G less than years of age or achieved significance within the past years.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for McCafferty Run Farmstead. Machine-read text.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04000945- 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
12 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of McCafferty Run Farmstead between
2002 and 2020, burning about 34 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 burning
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,793 specimens
collected within 10 miles of McCafferty Run Farmstead between 1874 and
1975: 1,336 Animalia, 355 Fungi, 93 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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
5 workings within 5 miles of McCafferty Run Farmstead: 3 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.
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
16,942 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 one or more boxes for the D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. asphalt Roof our history. Ross County, Ohio Other wood brick criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and metal: steel Walls B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. 7.
Description XA Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or 20th Century Revival: Cottage Tudor Revival Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) ceramic tile Materials (Enter categories from instructions) A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. No Style USDI/NES NKHP Kegistration Form Foundation concrete Criteria Considerations (Mark "X"in all the boxes that apply.) None Apply 30 March 2004 - Page 6 McCafferty Run Farmstead E a reconstructed building, object,or structure.
1917 to 1954 1938, 1939, 1940 Architect / Builder Marietta Concrete Company . Louden Machinery Company - Works Progress Administration Narrative Statement of Significance (X see continuation sheets) Ross County, Ohio F a commemorative property. Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Agriculture Period of Significance Architecture Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) D a cemetery. Garlinghouse Company Significant Dates Homer Ackley Cultural Affiliation G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. C a birthplace or a grave. 30 March 2004 - Page 7 McCafferty Run Farmstead 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 04000945, 125 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.
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.
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.
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