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Photograph of Voice of America Bethany Relay Station
Photograph by Jack Dominic, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Voice of America Bethany Relay Station

Built in 1943 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1943, Art Deco architecture.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 8070 Tylersville Rd., West Chester
  • When was it listed? November 2006
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1943
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06001081 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Voice of America Bethany Relay Station: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Watson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
James D. Spread Eagle Tavern-Conrey House3.6 miles2003
Hughes School4.1 miles1976
Miami-Erie Canal Site Historic District5.5 miles1978
Hughes Manor7.2 miles1994
Fitz Randolph-Rogers House7.9 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler CountyAll 82 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.
  • 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.