Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. 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
“Inscription Rock is a large slab of limestone measuring approximately 32 by 21 feet located on the south shore of Kelleys Island in Lake Erie in Erie County, Ohio. It is situated near the intersections of E Lakeshore Drive and Addison Rd under a large shelter structure with a viewing platform and is open to the public.”
Wikipedia article Inscription Rock (Kelleys Island, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 175 National Register listings in Erie County · listed in 1973 · category: Object · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Erie County.
National Register reference number.73001432- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 8,169 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 8,169 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Inscription Rock between 1860 and
1975: 6,443 Animalia, 1,435 Plantae, 262 Fungi, 18 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. F. Satterthwait, A. J. Eames, A. J. Pieters 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Inscription Rock: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
1,513 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.
Statement of significance
Kelleys Island is a small isolated area which presents us with a unique meeting or negatiations between tribes? Whether Kelleys Island was a meeting place for the leaders of tribal groups or was, perhaps, a single Commerce Architecture Communications Engineering losophy Aboriginal Science Literature Prehistoric Agriculture Landscape Education itarian Political principles during the Bauhaus era. Invention Music Religion/Phi complex communities and were characterized by extensive agricultural sites in the area would be most advantageous for placing the inhabitants earthern structures, such as the cresent shaped enclosure near Inscription Sculpture Social/Human- yet to be correctly interpreted but because of its excellent condition included in its list of state memorials.
Conservation historic group who inhabited northern Ohio from approximately A.D.1000 activities.They were the first group in the area to use the bow and with a specific time period.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001432, 13 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.
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.
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