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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Howell and Anna Powell Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2720 Cincinnati-Brookville Rd., Fairfield, 45013
- When was it listed? 2019-11-01
- Category. building
- Township. Ross township
- National Register reference number. 100004562 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
25,952 wordsThe chapter on Ross Township in The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879 names Fairfield. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
tration gives the relative sizes^ positions and distances of the mounds composing the group. The group is situated on the highest point of hind in the township, and from the summit of the hirgest mound a view of the surrounding country can be obtained. To the east, if the forest trees did not intervene, the city of Hamilton could be seen ; while to the south it overlooks the Colerain hills. Its position indicates that it was used as a signal station. A fire on the mound on Wilson's hill, section thirty-one, of St. Clair Township, would be instantly seen, and then the watchman on this mound would warn the people of the valley to flee to the forts in that vicinity. This mound would serve as the signal station for all the enclosures in the township, also a part of those in Fairfield and the Colerain works in Hamilton County.
Passage source: The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879.
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 Ross Township - 25,952 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 195 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 195 specimens collected within 10 miles of Howell and Anna Powell Farm between 1835 and 1975: 146 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Leptostromataceae | 1883 | Prof. W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Lancaster. |
 | Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey | 1835 | Collector unknown | In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio. |
| Carex convoluta Mack. | 1835 | Collector unspecified | "Miami" | |
 | Carex gracillima Schwein. | 1835 | B. Frank | In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio. |
 | Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819) | 1879 | W. Douglass | Jones Station |
 | Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1879 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones |
 | Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1879 | Porter, J.B. | |
 | Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1879 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones |
 | Tringa solitaria A.Wilson, 1813 | 1879 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
 | Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812) | 1880 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones Station |
 | Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825 | 1880 | not recorded |
All 195 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Howell and Anna Powell Farm: 9 producers, 7 past producers, 2 plants. 11 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allied Chem Corp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| F and C Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| F and C Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hilltop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Indian Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Indian Creek Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leonard Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $70,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted, several chimneys were damaged, several buildings had siding torn and shingles blown off, a carport collapsed, a power pole was snapped, and twenty cars at a car dealership sustained minor damage due to thunderstorm winds. In addition, the roofs of two businesses were damaged due to the winds. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $50,000 | Trees downed, some on structures and power lines. |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Fairfield | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $10,000 | A tree fell onto a house along Dee Alva Drive. Several other trees were downed in the same subdivision. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $6,000 | Two large oak trees were knocked down on a house, causing extensive damage. Four vehicles were also damaged. The location was reported as being in Hamilton at the corner of Beech and Pleasant avenues. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $5,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down in town. Large limbs were downed near Hamilton. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $4,000 | Several trees were downed near Symmes Road. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $3,000 | Windows were blown out of a building. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down throughout town. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Fairfield | $2,000 | A vehicle was stuck in high water on Sherry Lane. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $1,000 | A tree was downed near Mississippi and Wabash Drives. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $1,000 | A tree fell onto the roadway near the intersection of Hine Road ad State Route 128. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $1,000 | Two trees were blown down. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Fairfield | - | High water was reported on Hamilton Cleves Road east of Hine Road. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Fairfield | - | Quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of River Road and Nilles Road. |
| September 2011 | Heavy Rain | Fairfield | - | High water due to heavy rain was reported on roadways. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fairfield | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
7 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.
- 1915 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1917 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Shandon quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Shandon quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Shaw Farm | 1.0 miles | 1974 |
 | John Scott Barn and Granary | 2.4 miles | 2005 |
 | John Vaughan House | 3.1 miles | 1975 |
 | Thomas Select School | 3.4 miles | 1977 |
 | Cochran Farm | 5.4 miles | 1973 |
 | Symmes Mission Chapel | 5.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004562 in Record Group 79. |
| Butler County | All 82 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.
- 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.