Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2005. 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 Goll Homestead is a historic farm complex in far western Fulton County, Ohio, United States. Located in German Township northwest of Archbold, the farm has been declared a historic site because of its role in the region's settlement.”
Wikipedia article Goll Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 6 National Register listings in Fulton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05001185- 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 Goll Homestead between
2020 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism
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 53 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Goll Homestead between 1893 and
1963: 51 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by CLARENCE CLARK, DeRoth, Gilbert & Cocanour, Fink B. 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 National Weather Service names
Archbold, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood.
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.
SEVERAL HOMES NEAR ARCHBOLD SUSTAINED MODERATE TO SEVERE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE FROM THE HIGH WINDS. ONE HOME OWNER HAD HIS CHIMNEY COLLAPSE WHICH FELL THROUGH THE ROOF. THEY ALSO LOST SEVERAL WINDOWS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HOME FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ANOTHER HOME OWNER HAD HIS BARN BLOWN OFF ITS FOUNDATION AND HAD EVERY TREE ON THEIR PROPERTY UPROOTED. SEVERAL CROP FIELDS IN THE AREA WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED BY THE HIGH WINDS AND HAIL.
TWO PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THEIR VEHICLES AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. THE SAUDER VILLAGE MUSEUM SUSTAINED THE MOST DAMAGE AS FLAT RUN CREEK INUNDATED THE GROUND FLOOR WITH WATER. SEVERAL HOMES IN ARCHBOLD HAD WATER BACKUP THROUGH THE SEWER INTO THEIR BASEMENTS.
A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF ON A HOME AT 5326 CR RD 20. ANOTHER HOME HAD ITS WINDOWS BLOWN IN ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HOME AND A BARN WAS MOVED OFF ITS FOUNDATION 3 FEET. IN ADDITION SEVERAL LARGE TREES IN ARCHBOLD WERE UPROOTED.
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
12,276 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
Property is associated with events that have made a significant Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. 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 and Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or a grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.
Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) ETHNIC HERITAGE/EUROPEAN Period of Significance CA. 1862-1955 Significant Dates 1862-1865 - time frame for construction of house and barn Significant Person(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) ARCHITECTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Goll Homestead National Register listing) distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "X"in all the boxes that apply.) Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark"x"in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for Page 3 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Goll Homestead Fulton County, OH 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 05001185, 70 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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