A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1786. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1966. 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
“Public Land Survey is the point from which the United States in 1786 began the formal survey of the lands known then as the Northwest Territory, now making up all of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. The survey is claimed to be the first major cadastral survey undertaken by any nation.”
Wikipedia article Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 35 National Register listings in Columbiana County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · built in 1786 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Columbiana County.
National Register reference number.66000606- 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.
Fires near this property
21 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey between
1993 and 2018, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
8
Arson/incendiarism
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Other causes
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 326 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey between 1895 and
1975: 207 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 14 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D., Beer, F.H. 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
1 working within 5 miles of Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey: 1 unknown.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
East Liverpool, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
An NWS storm survey found a downburst occurred in Thompson Park in East Liverpool. Widespread wind damage was found with trees snapped or uprooted, some falling on houses. Maximum wind gusts were estimated at 80-90 MPH. Two minor injuries were reported, one when a tree fell on a car, and another when a vehicle drove into a downed tree.
Local media reported flash flooding on West 8th Street and surrounding streets in East Liverpool with 2 vehicles swamped and a mudslide on State Route 11.
Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. One pickup truck was damaged in the Wellsville area when large tree limbs fell on it and crushed the roof.
Trees and power lines were downed throughout the county. Fifteen miles north of East Liverpool several trees were downed and pea size hail was also reported. Three miles northwest of Georgetown, in the northwest part of the county, some large highway signs were blown down.
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.
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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