BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Leo Petroglyph
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
The listing
- Address. W of Leo, Coalton
- When was it listed? November 1970
- Category. site
- National Register reference number. 70000501 - 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.
Then and now
1913 to 1980The ground this property stands on, surveyed 67 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
37 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Leo Petroglyph between 2006 and 2020, burning about 232 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5145 |
| 13 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4511 |
| 22 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15176 |
| 21 April 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1001 |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4571 |
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.
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Byer Covered Bridge | 3.1 miles | 1975 |
 | Miner's Supply Store | 4.3 miles | 1977 |
| Gibson House | 7.0 miles | 1985 | |
 | Clutts House | 7.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Morgan Mansion | 7.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Harvey Wells House | 8.0 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 70000501 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Jackson County | All 13 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.