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one of 32 National Register listings in Trumbull County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Trumbull County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Newton Falls United Service Organization (USO) Center
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 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.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 52 E Quarry St., Newton Falls, 44444
- When was it listed? 2018-02-16
- Category. building
- Township. Newton township
- National Register reference number. 100002124 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
5,186 wordsThis property stands in Newton Township. History of the Newton Families of Colonial America, with American History of Family Interest Not Obtainable Elsewhere, published 1927 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Newton Township - 5,186 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Newton Falls United Service Organization (USO) Center between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15316 |
| 23 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15315 |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 133 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newton Falls United Service Organization (USO) Center between 1890 and 1973: 96 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alternaria panax Whetzel | 1909 | W.P. Warren | Garden of Warren |
 | Pleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci | 1927 | F.R. Jones; J.J. Davis | Newton |
 | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1928 | Rood, Almon N. | Braceville Tp., |
 | Obovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845) | 1890 | Dean, G W | Newton Falls, mill pond |
 | Neogale Gray, 1865 | 1894 | William Harvey Brown | WARREN |
 | Poa alsodes A.Gray | 1907 | Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N. | Braceville Twp |
 | Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp |
 | Centaurea nigrescens Willd. | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx |
 | Desmodium canadense (L.) DC. | 1908 | Rood, A.M. | Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls |
 | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp |
 | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1909 | not recorded | Newton Falls, lesser branch above city |
 | Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864 | 1911 | Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.) | Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 133 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this property
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton Falls, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Newton Falls | $2,500,000 | The flash flooding on August 8th put most of the Newton Falls Community Park under water along with several homes and businesses. State Route 534 along with several other roads were closed including Crossroads with Warren Ravenna Road, Taft Avenue and Wilson Avenue, had water standing as high as the mailbox of one residence. The storm sewer systems were overwhelmed causing backups into hundreds of homes and businesses' basements. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Newton Falls | $200,000 | Heavy rainfall estimated around 3 inches fell over southern Trumbull County. This resulted in widespread flooding as the ground had been wet from recent rain. The Eagle Creek in Braceville came out of banks and flooded most low lying roads and a few homes on Barcley Messerly Road. A few water rescues were needed for motorists in Braceville and Newton Falls. Crossroads in Newton Falls at Warren Ravenna Road, Taft Avenue and Wilson Avenue, had water standing as high as the mailbox of one residence. Dozens of basements were inundated in the two towns. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $15,000 | An estimated 75 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported in Newton Falls. Several trees were downed. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed ten trees. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $8,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $6,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed three large trees. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $3,000 | Trees and limbs were downed, some on power lines. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple trees east of Newton Falls. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and one large limb. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | $1,000 | Thunderstorms produced penny to nickel sized hail. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | $1,000 | Two large limbs were reported down. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Numerous trees downed in Newton Falls. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Tree fell onto NWS employee's house in Newton Falls. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Widespread tree damage in Newton Falls. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Treed downed onto vacant home in Newton Falls. Another tree down in Warren and another tree down two miles SSE of Champion Heights. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Newton Falls | - | An isolated thunderstorm produced flash flooding in Trumbull County with multiple roads closed primarily in Newton Falls. East Jay Street and Franklin Street in Newton Falls were under water with water up to car doors around 2:45pm EDT. Heavy localized rainfall estimated at 2.75 inches fell with rainfall rates peaked at 5/hr at 2:30 PM. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Trees and phone lines down in Newton Falls. Multiple large tree branches down in Warren. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Thunderstorms produced a swath of nickel size hail as they tracked across Trumbull County. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was observed. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny to quarter size hail was observed. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton Falls | - | A 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Newton Falls. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Newton Falls | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
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.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Newton Falls Covered Bridge | 0.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Mason, John Wesley, Gothic Cottage | 4.3 miles | 1975 |
 | McCorkle, Almon G., House | 6.9 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002124 in Record Group 79. |
| Trumbull County | All 32 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.
- 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.
- 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.