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Photograph of Groveport School
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Groveport School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 10 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 2009 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 715 E. Main St., Groveport
  • When was it listed? July 2009
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • National Register reference number. 09000564 - 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 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Groveport School, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Groveport School, surveyed 1925

Fires near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Groveport School in 2010, burning about 1 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
11 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Groveport School: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Masons Plant Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcdaniel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Groveport Town Hall Historic Group0.1 miles1978
Groveport Log Houses0.3 miles1976
Groveport United Methodist Church0.3 miles1995
John Rager Farmhouse1.6 miles1990
Morgan Thrush Farm Complex2.8 miles1989
Elias Decker Farmhouse2.8 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000564 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
  • 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.