Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.
From the record
“Olive Furnace, also known as Mount Olive Furnace, is a historic iron furnace site on State Route 93 at Township Road 239, north of Pedro, Ohio in Washington Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 2007.”
Wikipedia article Olive Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.07000299- 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.
Then and now
1912 to 2002
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19122002
Fires near this property
175 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Olive Furnace
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,066 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 were 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
58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
53
Debris and open burning
47
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Other causes
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
2
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 109 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Olive Furnace between 1896 and 1975: 103 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by C. N. Wander, C. R. Neiswander, C. Stein 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Olive Furnace: 2 producers, 2 past producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal. 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
Pedro, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Rains of .75 to an inch in an hour, combined with 36 hour accumulative rains of around 2 inches to cause small streams along Route 93 in western Lawrence County to flood.||Water surrounded a family of 5 in a house in Pedro, around mile marker 16 on Route 93. The water had come up in just 6 minutes. Water flowed over a private concrete bridge, raising its roadbed and causing a crack in the supports. The water quickly receded around 2200E. Near Vernon, and in the headwaters of Pine Creek, a vehicle was stranded in high water at the junction of Route 93 and County Road 14. Also near Vernon the county reported a water rescue from a home.
Minor small stream flooding occurred, blocking a few roads. Route 93 near Pedro was blocked on the afternoon of the 22nd. Symmes Creek crested slightly over bankfull during the predawn hours on the 23rd. The crest was 19.75 feet at the gauge at Aid. Bankfull is 19 feet.
Pine Creek flooded Route 93 in the evening on the 10th. Other routes such as 141 and Arabia to Greasy Ridge Road were closed in spots. Symmes Creek steadily rose to near 20 feet at Aid during the day on the 11th. This was a slightly lower level than what occurred on the 4th into the 5th of the previous week.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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
Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) the property for National Register listing) x A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad x[ B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. XO C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield Significant Dates information important in prehistory or history.
(Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person LIA owned by a religious institution or used for Campbell, John religious purposes. - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. L 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. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 07000299, 40 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.
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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