Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 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 citizenship of the township has, as a rule, ever been of high order. From the beginning churches and schools have been provided and maintained.”
History of Guernsey County, Ohio (1911). Machine-read text.
one of 18 National Register listings in Guernsey County · listed in 2023 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Guernsey County.
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Oxford Township in History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published 1911 names Fairview. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Oxford is on the eastern border of Guernsey county, midway north and south. It is five miles from north to south and six from east to west, containing about thirty sections of excellent land. Belmont county is to the east, Millwood township on the south, Wills and Madison on the west and Londonderry township on the north. Fairview, an historic village, is the only place of much importance within the township. Here begins the first section of the old National pike in Guernsey county. It traverses the township through its central portion, passing through six sections of the township, en route to Cambridge. It was one of the original townships in the county and an account is given of its early settlement, etc., by a citizen, Fred L. Rosmond, whose sketch of the township is as follows:
Passage source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published 1911.
The commercial interests of Fairview in 1910 were as follows: The J. W. Frost Cigar Company, that has been in existence about twenty years, and which consumes much of the native tobacco which is produced in quite large quantities in the immediate vicinity. The cigar making industry was first started here by Saltsgaver & Frost.
Passage source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Oxford Township - 2,329 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Scott, Matthew, House between 2003 and 2019, burning about 13 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 7.1 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15022 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scott, Matthew, House between 1925 and 1974: 31 Plantae, 15 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Adams, William; Adams, Sue, Borror, K. G. (Kathy G.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
 | Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
 | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
 | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $3,000 | Trees were reported to be knocked down near Fairview. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $2,000 | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $1,000 | A tree was blown down onto I-70 at mile marker 196. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Fairview | - | Member of the public reported water over several roads between Quaker City and Barnesville. Small streams out of their banks. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | S Bridge, National Road | 7.6 miles | 1966 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008837 in Record Group 79. |
| Guernsey County | All 18 listed properties in this county. |
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