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S Bridge, National Road

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1828. 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

“The S Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge, spanning Salt Fork about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Old Washington, Ohio. Built in 1828, it is one of the best-preserved surviving bridges built for the westward expansion of the National Road from Wheeling, West Virginia to Columbus, Ohio.”

Wikipedia article S Bridge, National Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 18 National Register listings in Guernsey County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · built in 1828 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Guernsey County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4 mi. E of Old Washington on U.S. 40, Old Washington, 43778
  • When was it listed? 1966-10-15
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Wills township
  • When was it built? 1828
  • National Register reference number. 66000610 - 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

4,881 words

This property stands in Wills Township. Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895; History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published 1911 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.

Read the whole chapter on Wills Township - 4,881 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of S Bridge, National Road between 2003 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1862
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1212
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15174
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7826
11 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources922
1 April 2014Debris and open burning7.1 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 170 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 170 specimens collected within 10 miles of S Bridge, National Road between 1912 and 1975: 106 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
Specimen of Clavaria kunzei Fr.Clavaria kunzei Fr.1923Treat, DorothyBirmingham
A photograph of the species Taphrina caerulescens, not of this specimenTaphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.1912Bartenstein T. E.Warrentown
A photograph of the species Isoetes muricata, not of this specimenIsoetes muricata Durieu1913L. S. Hazel M, D.D. HopkinsBrady's Lake.
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Melissodes bimaculatus, not of this specimenMelissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Polyporus caesius, not of this specimenPolyporus caesius (Schrad.) Fr.1923Nicholson LawrenceVermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. Frondose Woods along

All 170 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of S Bridge, National Road: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Guernsey County

Storms near this property

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Washington, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$20,000Emergency personnel reported numerous damage to structures and trees down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$8,000Trees and power lines blown down.
April 2015Flash FloodOld Washington$5,000Law enforcement reported SR 285 closed due to flash flooding.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$2,000Emergency management reports a tree down in Lore City.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$1,000Trees were reported down at the intersection of State Route 800 and Seven Mile Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$1,000Near Old Washington, trees were blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOld Washington$1,000Large tree blown down on Institute Rd.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOld Washington-A 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Putney Ridge Road.
June 2021HailOld Washington-Quarter sized hail was reported by the public.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOld Washington-A 911 Call Center reported numerous trees and power lines down throughout the county.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOld Washington-A NWS Storm Survey found trees down in this vicinity.
March 2026HailOld Washington-no account filed
June 2012HailOld Washington-no account filed
May 2011HailOld Washington-no account filed
May 2005HailOld Washington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey County

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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
National Road6.9 miles1985
Scott, Matthew, House7.6 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Guernsey CountyAll 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.