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One of 41 National Register listings published here for Scioto County · listed in 2019 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1926.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1529 Findlay Street, Portsmouth, 45662
- When was it listed? 2019-08-09
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Twentieth-Century African American Civil Rights Movement in Ohio MPS
- City. Portsmouth city
- National Register reference number. 100004233 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1926 to 1981The ground this property stands on, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
2,591 wordsThe chapter on Portsmouth City in An Accurate and Concise Sketch of Portsmouth, Ohio, published 1876 names Portsmouth. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Portsmouth is situated on the Ohio river, 116 miles above Cincinnati, at the mouth of the Scioto river, which flows from the centre of this great State through valleys unequalled in fertility, and of such extent as to add largely to our National exports. It is also the southern terminus of the Ohio Canal, thus affording a direct water communication between the South and West, and North and East; also of the Hocking Valley Railroad, long since constructed, and the Scioto Valley Road, now being completed from Columbus to this city. It will also necessarily form an important point in the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, now completed from Norfolk, Virginia, to Huntington, West Virginia, on the Ohio river, forty-five miles above this city, in its connection with the Northwest, and its point of divergence to strike the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is also probable that, either by public or private means, the James River and Kanawha Canal will be completed at no distant day,, and Portsmouth will then be the central point of three great water lines to the sea, and, as we shall proceed to show, naturally and artificially, the best entrepot of the trade, of a large and rich district of country, as it now is.
Passage source: An Accurate and Concise Sketch of Portsmouth, Ohio, published 1876.
While, as we have said, Portsmouth is one hundred and sixteen miles nearer than Cincinnati to the Atlantic seaports, the navigation of the river from New Orleans to the former is as good as to the latter, in all stages of water, while there is no important point above to which it is not obstructed by low water, or ice. None, in fact, approaching it in business or population, nearer than Wheeling, two hundred and seventy miles above,
Passage source: An Accurate and Concise Sketch of Portsmouth, Ohio, published 1876.
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 Portsmouth City - 2,591 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
128 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,257 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | PORTSMOUTH |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | ROSEMOUNT |
| 14 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHEEP HOLL |
| 1 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CHURCH STR |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,284 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool between 1884 and 1975: 1,166 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 42 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, Ahles, H.E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | H. Mores | Scioto River |
 | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
 | Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan | 1893 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
 | Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819 | 1885 | Ch. R. Orcutt | Scioto River |
 | Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm. | 1889 | Craig M. | Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River |
 | Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829 | 1896 | not recorded | Scioto River |
 | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio |
 | Peronospora polygoni Halst. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
 | Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
 | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
 | Sympetrum Newman, 1833 | 1897 | J. Hine | Portsmouth |
 | Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867) | 1897 | J. Hine | Portsmouth |
All 1,284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: 3 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Frankfort Mtls. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Own Crews Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Portsmouth Works | Clay | Plant | ||
| South Shore Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
60 of 98 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portsmouth, the town this property stands in, in 98 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 44 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 14 flash flood, 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $100,000 | Over 200 trees down throughout the county due to thunderstorm winds. Over a dozen homes in the county sustained damage due to tree impacts. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $50,000 | Numerous homes were flooded in and around Minford. US 23 was closed due to high water near the county fairgrounds. A mudslide closed US 52 near Stout. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $50,000 | A bridge was washed out due to persistent heavy rainfall. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $30,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Portsmouth area. |
| June 2021 | Flood | Portsmouth | $30,000 | Several cars were stranded in one to two feet of standing water in the city of Portsmouth. A few basements also flooded in low lying areas. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $25,000 | The Shawnee State University parking lot was flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $20,000 | Two buildings in downtown Portsmouth sustained some roof damage. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $20,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the county due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $20,000 | Numerous trees downed, one of which fell on a car. |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $10,000 | High water was up to car windows near the intersection of Grandview Avenue and 23rd Street. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed throughout the county. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused a tree to fall on a car, trapping the occupant. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $10,000 | A tree fell on a mobile home due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | $10,000 | Numerous roads across the county were flooded and closed. Vehicles in Portsmouth were stranded in high water, and portions of Clay and Vernon Townships were also significantly affected by the flooding. A retaining wall collapsed next to a home in Rosemount. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $10,000 | Trees were knocked down in West Portsmouth. Minor damage to buildings occurred and signs were downed in Portsmouth. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Portsmouth | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Portsmouth | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $6,000 | Extensive tree damage was reported across eastern Scioto County including the towns of Minford, Wheelersburg, and South Webster. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down along State Routes 104 and 125. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $5,000 | Tree knocked down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $5,000 | Several trees downed. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $4,000 | One large tree was downed onto power lines along Slab Run Road. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $4,000 | Several large trees downed. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | A tree was downed on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $3,000 | A tree and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | A half dozen trees and accompanying large limbs were knocked down, including several along State Route 140 north of Wheelersburg. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | Three trees and a few large limbs were downed. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | Several trees were downed across the southern part of the county. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $3,000 | Trees and powerlines were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | A couple of trees were knocked down. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $3,000 | Several trees and powerlines were downed. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | A few large limbs and powerlines were downed. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | Several trees downed. |
| June 2008 | Hail | West Portsmouth | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Three large trees were downed in Portsmouth. Another tree was downed onto southbound U.S. Route 23. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | West Portsmouth | $2,000 | Several roads were closed due to high water. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Trees were down on power lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $2,000 | Trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Portsmouth | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $2,000 | Two trees were downed in Shawnee State Park. |
| October 2019 | Flood | Portsmouth | $1,000 | A couple of underpasses in Portsmouth were reported flooded, with a car being trapped in one. Storm sewers also overflowed. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $1,000 | A large tree was downed onto 8th Street. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $1,000 | Some branches were reported downed in Portsmouth due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | West Portsmouth | $1,000 | Roads were flooded near West Portsmouth due to heavy rainfall. |
| April 2011 | Flood | West Portsmouth | $1,000 | Roads were flooded due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Portsmouth | $1,000 | A severe thunderstorm producing penny to nickel size hail also produced winds that knocked power lines down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Portsmouth | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Portsmouth | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $500 | A tree was downed near Greenlawn Cemetery. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portsmouth | $3 | Trees were downed, some across State Route 139. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Portsmouth | - | U.S. Route 52 was flooded with 6 to 8 inches of water. |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Portsmouth Inquirer | 1849 to 1855 |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:48000
- 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Ironton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Aaron Kinney House | 0.4 miles | 1973 |
 | Greenlawn Cemetery Chapel | 0.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Second Presbyterian Church | 0.5 miles | 1996 |
 | Streich Apartments | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Portsmouth Fire Department No. 1 | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Steindam House | 0.6 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004233 in Record Group 79. |
| Scioto County | All 41 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.
- 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.