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Photograph of Joshua Stevenson House
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Joshua Stevenson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Stevenson, Joshua, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5105 Bowen Rd., Canal Winchester
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 07000581 - 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

1925 to 1984

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Joshua Stevenson House, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet covering Joshua Stevenson House, surveyed 1925

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 Joshua Stevenson House in 2020, burning under an acre 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
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15924

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

9 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000581 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 343 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.