Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1970. 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
one of 4 National Register listings in Pike County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.70000513- 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
68 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Friendly Grove between
2007 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning
38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Smoking
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 1,524 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Friendly Grove between 1889 and
1975: 1,435 Animalia, 59 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed), B. W. Evermann 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Friendly Grove: 3 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer.
3 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Piketon, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flood, 3 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.
Several homes were flooded along State Route 32 with two people evacuated in Jackson Township. Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the southern part of the county.
A tornado touched down at the Pike County Fairgrounds where a storage shed was destroyed. Metal debris was strewn about the property. Another building on the property sustained roof damage. The maximum wind speed based on damage is around 80 miles per hour.
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
1,035 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
Federal style, L-shaped, typical of the better farm homes of the region motto: virtue, liberty, and independence, R. Lucas A.D. 1824. The seamed, The house was built by Robert Lucas, born in Virginia in 1781 of Quaker Joseph Barnes, early steamboat experimenter. Lucas migrated to Ohio in 1800. During the War of 1812 he was a brigadier general of militia, and militia, and captain of regulars. In 1816, he held the rank of major two consecutive terms as governor of Ohio, 1832-1836. In.this office he disputed territory, now Lucas County, Ohio.
Also, at this time he served CONDITION Excellent Ruins The house remains in a rural environment largely unchanged except for the The exterior of the house is largely unchanged.First story windows have permanent chairman of the first national Democratic Convention.He served metal roof was applied later. panes.A hand-carved stone lintel over the front door carries the family disappearance of several outbuildings. the Iowa Territory in 1838.He served in these capacities until 184l.He as U.S. Commissioner to negotiate the treaty removing the Wyandot Indians original sash,12/12 panes; second story also with original sash,12/8 first, second story later. spent his remaining years in Iowa City, but retained ownership of Friendly from Ohio.
captain of regulars.In 1816,he held the rank of major general of width flooring, and chair rails are intact. continuously in the state legislature.In 1832 he was both temporary and Grove until his death in 1853. playeda decisive role in the Toledo War between Ohio and Michigan over (Check One) Good general of militia in Ohio. Between 1814 and 1832, he served almost built in the early days of statehood by Virginia imigrants to the new state. The house may have been constructed at two times, the ground level Inside, the structure is largely original.
Ohio. Historically, the house was the creation and residence of general, governor of Ohio and of the Iowa Territory. Communications Conservation Military SIGNIFICANCE Commerce Music Transportation Aboriginal Engineering Theater Science Art Landscape Literature Education losophy Agriculture Invention Sculpture Urban Planning Industry itarian generation Ohio architecture of Virginia influence and is typical dot the landscape of the Virginia Military District of southern Architecture an important personage: nationally prominent Jacksonian Democrat, Friendly Grove is a well-preserved example of permanent, first- of farmhouses of its period and origin of builder which used to Political Religion/Phi- Social/Human-
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000513, 9 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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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