A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1969. 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 Kirtland Temple, located in Kirtland, Ohio, is the first temple built by adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormons, dedicated in March 1836. Joseph Smith, the movement's founder, directed the construction following a series of reported revelations, and the temple showcases a blend of Federal, Greek Revival, and Gothic Revival architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article Kirtland Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1969 · category: Building · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.69000145- 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
1 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kirtland Temple between
2003 and 2003, burning about 400 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
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 1,432 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Kirtland Temple between 1864 and
1975: 1,204 Animalia, 149 Plantae, 69 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Kirtland Temple: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Kirtland, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph impacted Mentor. The tornado began just west of Dartmoor Road near Mentor Avenue, where large trees were downed. Numerous additional trees were downed as the tornado tracked generally eastward. Multiple homes along Stockridge Road and Middlesex Road sustained damage (e.g. roof and siding damage) from downed trees. Extensive tree damage also occurred at the Great Lakes Mall property before the tornado shifted east-northeastward and damaged additional trees and power lines near the intersection of Johnnycake Ridge Road and Fairview Avenue. Tree damage also occurred in Wildwood Park before the tornado ended along Chillicothe Road, just south of Donald E. Kruger Park.
Penny size hail was observed. Hail ranged in size between penny and pea size and lasted for several minutes covering the ground, and accumulating to around an inch.
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
2,111 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.
Description of the property
The frame was constructed of oak beams, and the walls of stone, two feet thick. The walls, exterior, were covered with a stucco plaster Appearance is fundamentally unchanged. The interior and exterior have been added, as well as a sprinkler system. The aisles are presently carpeted. CONDITION INTEGRITY PRESENT: Deteriorated plaster have been replaced.Electric lighting and central heating work decorated the first two floors of the three story building. (Check One) the plaster.
The interior walls were plastered, and elaborate wood- Ruins which sparkled in the sun as china dishes were broken and mixed with PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) Sculpture decided to build a meetinghouse, while primarily for religious observances, Joseph Smith, Jr. served as foreman of both the temple construction and Smith's decision to move his followers from New York to Kirtland, Ohio, was colonizer of the Salt Lake Valley, worked as either glazier or plasterer. observances, was used as a school for the children, a continuing education hall, with traveling speakers discussing perhaps temperance, abolition, etc. the death of Joseph Smith, Jr., in 1844 his church split into many factions.
design and construction seldom witnessed on the frontier, where more press- Architects Society of Ohio, and it was included in the Historic American in The Historical Society Quarterly (Lake County, Ohio) of November 1965 wrote, ful soulé who believed his visions and revelations came from on high. It Conservation Commerce Architecture Communications Landscape Engineering Transportation Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 69000145, 14 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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