BlockFrom the record
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Licking County · listed in 2016 · category: District · built in 1929.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Dawes Arboretum, The
Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
The listing
- Address. 7770 Jacksontown Rd., SE., Newark
- When was it listed? August 2016
- Category. district
- When was it built? 1929
- National Register reference number. 16000525 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1909 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dawes Arboretum, The between 2014 and 2015, burning about 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 842 |
| 15 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 Dawes Arboretum, The: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Walters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Newark Leader | 1917 to 1946 |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Anthony Pitzer Jr. House | 1.7 miles | 1988 |
| Ohio Canal Groundbreaking Site | 3.4 miles | 1973 | |
 | Newark Earthworks | 5.3 miles | 1966 |
| West Side Planing Mill (rear) | 5.3 miles | 1983 | |
 | Hull Place | 5.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Newark High School | 5.5 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000525 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Licking County | All 60 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.
- 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.