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one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tawawa Chimney Corner
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.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1198 Brush Row Rd., Wilberforce, 45385
- When was it listed? 2020-07-31
- Category. building
- Township. Xenia township
- National Register reference number. 100005361 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 935 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 935 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tawawa Chimney Corner between 1870 and 1975: 667 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 119 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Leiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.Evans | 1922 | William Bayard Taylor; G. H. Conklin | Clifbore[sp?] Gorge |
 | Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg. | 1923 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | Clifton Gorge |
 | Bidens bipinnata L. | 1870 | J Y Bergen; T L Bergen | Yellow Springs |
 | Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger | 1873 | Collector unspecified | Clifton |
 | Rhytidium rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb. | 1873 | not recorded | Clifton |
 | Thamnobryum alleghaniense (Müll.Hal.) Nieuwl. | 1875 | H. J. Biddlecome | Clifton |
| Brachythecium laetum (Brid.) Schimp. | 1876 | not recorded | Clifton | |
| Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger | 1876 | Mrs. Spence | ||
 | Bryum affine (Blandow ex Funck) Brid. | 1876 | Collector unspecified | Clifton |
 | Eurhynchium hians (Hedw.) Sande Lac. | 1876 | H. J. Biddlecome | Clifton |
 | Geocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees | 1876 | not recorded | Clifton |
| Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort. | 1876 | H. J. Biddlecome | Clifton |
All 935 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 Tawawa Chimney Corner: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armentrout Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Armentrout Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Richards and Son Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Xenia Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Xenia Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilberforce, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2008 | Hail | Wilberforce | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilberforce | $5,000 | A few trees were downed along Wilberforce-Clifton Road as well as Jones Road. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilberforce | $4,000 | Power lines were snapped, and trees were downed. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Emery Hall | 0.2 miles | 2005 |
 | Carnegie Library (Old Wilberforce University Campus) | 0.2 miles | 2004 |
 | C. N. & I. Department Power House | 0.6 miles | 2003 |
 | Young, Col. Charles, House | 2.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Hollencamp House | 3.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Xenia Carnegie Library | 3.2 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005361 in Record Group 79. |
| Greene County | All 30 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.