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Town Pump of East Sparta, The
Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2009. 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
one of 81 National Register listings in Stark County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure · built in 1921.
National Register reference number.09000172- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Town Pump of East Sparta, The between
2003 and 2020, burning about 27 acres 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 burning
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
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 262 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Town Pump of East Sparta, The between 1836 and
1975: 241 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Town Pump of East Sparta, The: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
East Sparta, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
The same parent thunderstorm that produced a tornado in northeastern Holmes County spawned a second tornado in southeastern Stark County. A F1 tornado touched down east of East Sparta around 5:58 pm. This tornado moved east into Waynesburg where it followed Lisbon Street through the center of town and then lifted. The tornado had a damage path roughly three and a half miles long and no more than 50 yards in width. Hundreds of trees were downed along the damage path. Many of these trees were in Waynesburg where the top floor of a three story building in the downtown area was tore off. A second building on Mill Street also sustained significant damage. Other buildings on the east side of the city also sustained some damage. Twenty two utility poles were snapped in the Waynesburg area as well. Straight line winds associated with the parent thunderstorms may have contributed to this damage.
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
2,392 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
Areas of Significance Enter categories from instructions X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, ormethod of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D 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. Significant Person - B removed from its original location.
(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. Cultural Affiliation - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 09000172, 17 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
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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