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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Battle of Berlin Heights Engagement Site
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
The listing
- Address. E1/2 NW1/4 & W1/2 NE1/4 S19, T7NR17W, Berlin Crossroads
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. site
- Also known as. Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio MPS
- National Register reference number. 100002645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1913 to 1980The 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.
Fires near this property
31 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Battle of Berlin Heights Engagement Site between 2009 and 2019, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11885 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Morgan Mansion | 2.8 miles | 1979 |
 | Clutts House | 2.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Harvey Wells House | 2.9 miles | 2009 |
 | Miner's Supply Store | 4.5 miles | 1977 |
 | Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge | 4.5 miles | 1975 |
| Buckeye Furnace | 4.7 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002645 in Record Group 79. |
| Jackson County | All 13 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.