BlockFrom the record
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Athens County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
East State Street-Elmwood Place Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- Listed as. East State Street--Elmwood Place Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. East State St 138-234, 169-277l Elmwood 5-73, 6-72, 74, Athens
- When was it listed? October 2010
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 10000872 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1903 to 2002The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 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
27 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of East State Street-Elmwood Place Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | BEAN HOLLOW |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | RAW FIRE |
| 2 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NORTH PEACH |
| 12 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MILL CREEK FIRE |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | THREE FIRE |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12805 |
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.
- 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Athens quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Athens quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mount Zion Baptist Church | 0.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Athens Downtown Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Athens Governmental Buildings | 0.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Manasseh Cutler Hall, Ohio University | 0.7 miles | 1966 |
 | Beasley Building | 0.7 miles | 1982 |
 | Ohio University Campus Green Historic District | 0.8 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000872 in Record Group 79. |
| Athens County | All 28 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.