Epworth Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Belmont County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 215 N. Main Street, Bethesda
When was it listed? July 2025
Category. district
National Register reference number. 100012004 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Epworth Park Historic District between 2002 and 2014, burning about 39 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United 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 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 Bethesda quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dr. Lindley Schooley House and Office	2.0 miles	1982
Belmont Historic District	2.0 miles	1987
Morristown Historic District	3.2 miles	1980
Friends Boarding School and Ohio Yearly Meetinghouse Historic District	4.1 miles	2009
James Kinney Farmstead	4.6 miles	1999
Barnesville Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot	5.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012004 in Record Group 79.
Belmont County	All 23 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.