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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Ludowici Roof Tile Company Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.
The listing
- Address. 4757 Tile Plant Rd., New Lexington
- When was it listed? February 2021
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100006136 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1911 to 2002The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 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
22 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Ludowici Roof Tile Company Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 36 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10625 |
| 21 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4566 |
| 15 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4366 |
| 12 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2017 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7895 |
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15487 |
| 9 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3651 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 716 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ludowici Roof Tile Company Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnelly Pit | Clay, Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Junction City Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Ludowici-Celadon Donnelly Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rush Creek Clay Company Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rush Creek Clay Company Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Turkey Run Mine Johnson City Clay | Clay | Producer |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Perry County Courthouse and Jail | 1.7 miles | 1981 |
 | Saint Joseph's Catholic Church | 4.4 miles | 1986 |
 | Sheridan House | 6.2 miles | 1980 |
| Somerset Historic District | 6.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006136 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Perry 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.
- 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.