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One of 57 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Radnor Township Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1924.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4425 OH 203, Radnor, 43066
- When was it listed? 2023-06-30
- Category. building
- Township. Radnor township
- National Register reference number. 100009061 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1924 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
19,047 wordsThe chapter on Radnor Township in History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880 names Radnor. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Margaret E. Wasson April 3, 1851 ; she was born in Delaware Co., Ohio, June 29, 1829 ; she is the daughter of William M. and Lucy (Minter) Wasson, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Kentucky.; the Minters came to Delaware Co. in 1804 ; the Wassons did not come until some years later ; both families, however, were among the earliest settlers, and their descendants ate to-day among the most |)rominent and respected citizetis of the county. From our subject's union with Miss Wasson, there were eight children, seven of whom are living - Lucy E., John W., Margaret. A., William McV., Mary A., Harriet and Benjamin C; the deceased was named Morris J. Mr. Humphreys owns 332 acres of nicely improved land in Radnor Township, and 120 acres near Emporia, Kan. He is a stanch Republican. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church.
Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.
Levi V. Mrs. Jones, wife of our subject, departed this life at her residence Aug. 11, 1878 ; her marriage with Mr. Jones was one of unalloyed happiness, spending fifty-three years of her life assisting her husband in the toils and hardships of their new home. She and her husband were consistent and devoted members of the Baptist Church ; Mrs. Jones was an exemplary Christian and a devoted mother ; her death leaves an aged husband and many friends to mourn her loss. Mr. Jones lives with his daughter, Gwen B.; in former days, he was shoemaker for the whole neighborhood, a business he followed for a number of years. Is a stanch Republican and an honest, upright man in his dealings with men. He is 84 years old, and the oldest voter in Radnor Township ; he has four great-grandchildren living, and is a man respected and loved by all his friends and acquaintances.
Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.
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 Radnor Township - 19,047 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 558 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 558 specimens collected within 10 miles of Radnor Township Hall between 1871 and 1975: 488 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, B. R. Laughlin, Binning, M. B. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Fr.) Lév. | 1898 | Lloyd | Ohio |
| Vernonia maxima Small | 1871 | Collector unspecified | Scioto | |
 | Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1887 | not recorded | Delaware, near Olentangy River |
| Dryobates villosus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1889 | not recorded | Delaware | |
 | Icteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1889 | not recorded | Delaware |
 | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1889 | not recorded | Delaware |
 | Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 1758 | 1890 | not recorded | Delaware |
 | Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin. | 1890 | Wilcox, E.V. | Deleware |
 | Chordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771) | 1891 | not recorded | Delaware |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1891 | not recorded | Delaware |
 | Icterus spurius spurius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1891 | not recorded | Delaware |
| Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798) | 1891 | not recorded | Delaware |
All 558 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Radnor Township Hall: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penry Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Penry Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radnor, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Radnor | $200,000 | The tornado briefly touched down on the west side of Highway 257 southwest of Radnor. The tornado initially hit two barns, destroying one and heavily damaging another. One barn consisted of cinder block walls and tin roofing. Much of the cinder block collapsed, while roofing of this structure with some of the attached cinder block and other bard roofing and walls was lifted across Highway 257 where much of the material was wrapped around trees along the Scioto River. Large portions of the barn roofing was lofted over the tree line along the Scioto River and deposited in the back yards of residences along River Road, on the east side of the river, a distance of two tenths of a mile away. Tree damage along the south side of the brief tornado track was lying in a northeast orientation which was inward toward the tornado track which confirms the convergent circulation. Other damage along the path included snapped large trees, complete destruction of a small shed, and large amounts of debris wrapped around trees. Corn stalks were found in yards of residence on the east side of the Scioto River, with the nearest corn fields nearly a quarter of a mile away. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum wind speed of this tornado was approximately 85 miles per hour. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $8,000 | Numerous trees down across the northern part of the county. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $5,000 | A car shelter was destroyed and a few windows were broken in an RV due to thunderstorm winds. Several large limbs were also downed. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $1,000 | A tree was downed near the intersection of Radnor and River Roads. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | $250 | Several large branches were downed on Radnor Road. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Radnor | - | High water due to heavy rainfall was reported over State Route 203 near Radnor. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Radnor | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
9 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.
- 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Prospect quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Baker Tavern | 0.3 miles | 2006 |
 | Samuel Lewis Farmhouse | 1.7 miles | 1993 |
 | John Detwiller Tavern and Farmstead | 2.3 miles | 1993 |
 | Samuel Cooper Farmhouse | 4.0 miles | 1993 |
 | James Richey Farmhouse | 5.9 miles | 1993 |
| Warren Tavern Complex | 5.9 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009061 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 57 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.