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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Guernsey County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Matthew Scott House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Scott, Matthew, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 210 Fair Ave., Fairview
- When was it listed? 2023-04-21
- Category. building
- Township. Oxford township
- National Register reference number. 100008837 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
2,329 wordsThe 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.
Fires near this property
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Matthew Scott 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 |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 48 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Matthew Scott 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.
Storms near this property
5 since 1997Regional 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 |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1903 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | S Bridge, National Road | 7.6 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008837 in Record Group 79. |
| Guernsey County | All 22 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.
- 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.
- 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.