Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Fairfield County Infirmary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 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.

From the record

one of 29 National Register listings in Fairfield County · listed in 2020 · category: District · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Fairfield County.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1587 Granville Pike and 1651 Lancaster-Newark Rd. NE, Lancaster, 43130
When was it listed? 2020-03-27
Category. district
Township. Lancaster City township
National Register reference number. 100005128 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield County Infirmary between 2012 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15338
5 July 2020	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15801
16 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15761
5 April 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	742
9 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15458
19 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	524
10 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15998

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,251 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,251 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fairfield County Infirmary between 1839 and 1975: 1,621 Animalia, 394 Fungi, 222 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 2,251 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield County Infirmary: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Blazer Plant A-1 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brewer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Febus Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Igel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jimmys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morris Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stump Hollow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this property

60 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 97 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 48 thunderstorm wind, 32 hail, 9 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2017	Lightning	Lancaster	1 hurt	A person in a small metal shed was struck by lightning.
May 2022	Hail	Lancaster	$200,000	Numerous houses in the Lancaster area had siding and roof damage caused by the large hail.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$100,000	Flash flooding along Fetters Run near College Avenue caused damage to the roadway, as well as significant damage to the Lancaster Festival stages, equipment, and vehicles.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$100,000	Multiple water rescues occurred in the apartment complex along Sater Drive where water was over three feet deep. Additionally, over 30 vehicles were flooded in deep water.
September 2000	Tornado (F0)	Lancaster	$30,000	A tornado made a few brief touchdowns in Lancaster destroying a garage and knocking down some trees and power lines.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$20,000	Fetters Run Creek was out of its banks and overtopped the bridge along College Avenue, causing structural damage to the bridge.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$20,000	Multiple swift water rescues were needed for animals trapped inside of a building submerged with three to four feet of water on Granville Pike. The building backs up to Fetters Run stream.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$20,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the eastern part of the county. There was minor damage to siding and gutters on a few homes on Betz Road, to the west of Lancaster.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	Several trees were downed in the Lancaster area.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	Trees were reported down countywide.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	Multiple large tree limbs were downed and siding damage occurred to buildings due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	A large tree was downed on a pickup truck and siding damage occurred to a house due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	Several trees and large limbs were downed. Fallen trees caused minor damage to a house, and significant damage to a parked vehicle.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$10,000	A couple of houses sustained minor roof and siding damage along Sugar Grove Road. Trees were also downed.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$6,000	Several trees were snapped and a few large trees were uprooted.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$6,000	Several roads were flooded, and a few homes had basement flooding.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	A tree was blown down onto the roof of a home.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house at the intersection of King Street and High Street.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	A tree was downed and fell onto a home.
April 2002	Hail	Lancaster	$5,000	High winds associated with the hail producing thunderstorm caused a 60 foot wall at a school construction site in Amanda to collapse.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	Several trees knocked down.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused several roads to be flooded including State Route 33.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused several roads to be flooded just south of Lancaster.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	Trees were uprooted.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	A barn roof was blown off and trees were downed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	Trees were downed.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$5,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	Several trees were downed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	A tree was knocked down, which caused power outages in Lancaster.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	A tree fell into a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	Several large trees were downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	Trees and powerlines were downed.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$4,000	Trees were blown down in town.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Lancaster	$3,000	A ground survey with assistance form the Fairfield County EMA confirmed a brief and weak tornado touched down in the southwest part of Lancaster.\|\|The survey revealed an eyewitness report of a very weak tornado on the ground near a residence at the west end of Mount Ida Avenue in Lancaster. No damage occurred at this residence. From there the weak tornado moved east through a wheat field with a narrow path of flattened wheat in a convergent pattern. From there the tornado moved between Tarhe Street and Twin Creek Way where minor tree damage occurred, including a couple of uprooted trees and snapped limbs. The tornado appears to have lifted as it approached south Broad Street.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
March 2007	Flood	Lancaster	$3,000	Three roads were flooded and closed.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$3,000	Roof shingles were peeled off of several homes.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$3,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$3,000	Trees knocked down.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few trees were downed.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	Numerous large limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A couple of trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few trees were reported down in Hocking and Berne Townships due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	Two trees were knocked down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few large tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few trees were downed at the intersection of State Route 188 and Amanda-Northern Road.
May 2003	Hail	Lancaster	$2,000	Large limbs were downed along with the large hail.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A roof was blown off of a greenhouse.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A few trees were blown down by winds measured at 60 mph.
April 2007	Hail	Lancaster	$2,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$1,000	A tree was uprooted.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$1,000	A power pole was snapped.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$1,000	Large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$1,000	A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2007	Hail	Lancaster	$1,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

6 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. 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 Lancaster Gazette	1863 to 1886
American Lancaster Gazette	1855 to 1860
The Lancaster Gazette	1846 to 1852
The Weekly Lancaster Gazette	1860 to 1863
The Gazette and Democrat	1860 to 1860
The Weekly Lancaster Gazette	1852 to 1855

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Medill, William, House	1.5 miles	1978
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church	1.6 miles	1979
Bush, Samuel, House	1.6 miles	1974
Sherman, John, Birthplace	1.7 miles	1966
Lancaster West Main Street Historic District	1.8 miles	1979
Fairfield County Children's Home	1.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005128 in Record Group 79.
Fairfield County	All 29 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.