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one of 18 National Register listings in Wayne County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Green Township High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 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 listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 484 E. Main St., Smithville, 44677
- When was it listed? 2013-09-04
- Category. building
- Township. Green township
- National Register reference number. 13000684 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Green Township High School between 2002 and 2002, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 June 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 2,242 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,242 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green Township High School between 1877 and 1975: 1,815 Animalia, 232 Plantae, 154 Fungi, 40 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807) | 1930 | B. Montgomery & J. Houser | 2 miles northeast of Wooster |
 | Aster ciliolatus Lindl. | 1877 | Thorne, B.H. | Station Farm, Wooster |
 | Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City |
 | Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City |
 | Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in) |
 | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to) |
 | Chelidon Forster, 1817 | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
All 2,242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Green Township High School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orrville Tile Co Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Hail | Smithville | $100,000 | Thunderstorms produced half dollar to hen egg size hail. Numerous vehicles and homes sustained damage from the large hail. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Smithville | $50,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down across northern Wayne County. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Smithville | $10,000 | Walnut size hail was observed. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Smithville | $8,000 | Half dollar size hail was observed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a dugout at a softball field. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | $2,000 | Trained spotters and amateur radio operators reported trees and power lines downed in the Smithville area. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | $2,000 | A trained weather spotter reported 2 large trees brought down by thunderstorm wind. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Smithville | $2,000 | Dime size hail was observed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | - | Trees downed in Smithville. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Smithville | - | Trees downed in Smithville. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Smithville | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Smithville | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Smithville | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Barnet-Hoover Log House | 3.5 miles | 1974 |
| Smith Orr Homestead | 4.9 miles | 2011 | |
| Schantz Organ Company | 5.3 miles | 2021 | |
 | Beall, Gen. Reasin, House | 5.9 miles | 1976 |
| Overholt House | 5.9 miles | 1983 | |
 | Zimmerman, Ezekiel B., Octagon House | 6.1 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000684 in Record Group 79. |
| Wayne County | All 18 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.
- 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.