Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2011. 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.
From the record
“(provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance) The bridge was constructed by the WPA in 1940,36 years after Vesuvius Furnace ceased operation. The architecture of the stone bridge is historically significant as an unusual example of Depression-era public works construction.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Vesuvius Furnace--Stone Bridge (Boundary Decrease). Machine-read text.
one of 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 2011 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.11000671- 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.
The ground it stands on
106 words
This property stands in Elizabeth Township. Queen Elizabeth, published 1900 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Vesuvius Furnace--Stone Bridge (Boundary Decrease) between
1992 and 2020, burning about 2,163 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 112 were 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
167
Arson/incendiarism
112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
67
Equipment and vehicle use
27
Recreation and ceremony
13
Other causes
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Smoking
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 453 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Vesuvius Furnace--Stone Bridge (Boundary Decrease) between 1890 and
1972: 332 Animalia, 66 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Vesuvius Furnace--Stone Bridge (Boundary Decrease): 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ironton, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Several small streams, including Symmes Creek flooded on the 4th into the 5th. The Ohio River caused minor flooding and road closures to continue into the 7th.
On South Third Street, a vacant building saw an entire wall of bricks blown out from its upper floor. The bricks toppled to the sidewalk below. One tree on Sixth Street fell onto a parked car. Trash cans, potted plants, lawn furniture and other debris were blown around town.
Fallen trees damaged the roofs of two businesses and one house. Cars were also damaged. Urban runoff from the downpour flooded the police station when a sump pump failed.
Trees were uprooted. One hard hit region was Kitts Hill area, where Crow Ridge and Homeless Roads had power lines blown down. One car was reported crushed by a fallen tree.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
From the nomination file
2,794 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
(Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. 1940, 1990, 2010 (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply) (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above) owed by a religious institution or used for religious A purposes. removed from its original location.
C a birthplace or grave. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Criteria Consideratons (explanation, if necessary) 1940 WPA Architect/Builder history. TRANSPORTATION ARCHITECTURE Criteria Considerations Significant Person Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation Areas of Significance Period of Significance (justification) Property is: Period of Significance Property embodies the distinctive characteristics a cemetery.
Significant Dates County and State artistic values, or represents a significant Vesuvius Furnace - Stone Bridge (Boundary Decrease) Lawrence, Ohio Name of Property County and State Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (provide a summary paragraph that includes level of signficance and The bridge is thematically not relevant to Vesuvius Iron Furnace. integrity needed to be included in the National Register of Historic Places. Narrative Statement of Significance (provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance) The bridge was constructed by the WPA in 1940,36 years after Vesuvius Furnace ceased operation. The bridge does different time period.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 11000671, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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.
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