BlockFrom the record
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Scioto County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ohio & Erie Canal Southern Descent Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- Address. Old River Rd. at Slab Run, Portsmouth
- When was it listed? September 2022
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100008049 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 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
131 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Ohio & Erie Canal Southern Descent Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,372 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| 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 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9147 |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | PORTSMOUTH |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8166 |
| 7 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MORTON HILL |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ohio & Erie Canal Southern Descent Historic District (Boundary Increase): 1 plant, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own Crews Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Portsmouth Works | Clay | Plant | ||
| South Shore Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect |
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
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.
- 1915 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Philip Moore Stone House | 1.2 miles | 1975 |
 | Boneyfiddle Commercial Disrict | 1.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Portsmouth Foundry and Machine Works | 1.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Dole-Darrell House | 1.6 miles | 1987 |
| Judge William V. Peck House | 1.6 miles | 1979 | |
| Cunningham-Maier House | 1.7 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008049 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.
- 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.