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Photograph of Flint Ridge State Memorial
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Flint Ridge State Memorial

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Licking County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1933.

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

The listing

  • Address. 2 mi. N of Brownsville, Brownsville
  • When was it listed? November 1970
  • Category. site
  • When was it built? 1933
  • National Register reference number. 70000505 - 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

1909 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Flint Ridge State Memorial, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Flint Ridge State Memorial, surveyed 1909

Fires near this property

17 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Flint Ridge State Memorial between 2014 and 2020, burning about 38 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 burning12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15769
23 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12545
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15210
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources842
18 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1621
12 April 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7908
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7411

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Flint Ridge State Memorial: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Walters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Walters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Licking County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Licking CountyAll 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.