Photograph of Western College for Women — Photograph by John Fink from Oxford, OH, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Western Female Seminary

Built in 1855. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1979 · category: District · built in 1855.

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

The listing

Address. US 27 and OH 73, Western College, Miami University, Oxford
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. district
When was it built? 1855
National Register reference number. 09000083 - 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 Western Female Seminary: 1 plant. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dingledine Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1911 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Langstroth Cottage	0.2 miles	1976
William H. McGuffey House	0.5 miles	1966
Herron Gymnasium	0.5 miles	1979
Elliott and Stoddard Halls, Miami University	0.5 miles	1973
Zachariah Price Dewitt Cabin	0.7 miles	1973
Henry Maltby House	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler County	All 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.