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Federal Land Office
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
“Federal Land Office is a former government building in Steubenville, Ohio where the federal government sold public lands to settlers. It is now on the property of a museum beside reconstructed Fort Steuben.”
Wikipedia article Federal Land Office (Steubenville, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
National Register reference number.73001482- 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.
AWFUL ACCIDENT---One of the most horrible accidents on the Panhandle R.R. for some years occurred near Coshocton Tuesday evening. . . in which WHEELER BURGESS was fatally injured, JOHN CURN and ROBERT DAVIS of THOS. FRITH's crew of stone bridge builders from this city were killed. . . (men were riding on a hand car, overtaken by train, these three had no time to jump from car). The three bodies arrived in Steubenville Wednesday morning. Davis' body was taken t6 the residence of THOMAS ROBERTS on Eighth Street. Curn's body was taken to his late residence at the corner of Eighth and Adams Streets. The body of Burgess was taken to his late residence, a new house just completed last summer on South Fourth Street.
We are grieved to announce today the death of M. JENNIE, wife of FREDERICK FRIDE, which occurred this morning at her home on West Market Street, of inflammation of the bowels, aged 25 years. She was a daughter of GEORGE and ELIZABETH SHARLETT, and was born in Steubenville. She had been married less than a year. . . Her remains will be laid to rest in the Union Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Federal Land Office between
2014 and 2017, burning about 11 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Debris and open burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 476 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Federal Land Office between 1836 and
1974: 253 Animalia, 183 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Federal Land Office: 2 producers, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. 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
Steubenville, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 46 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
two facing west on either side of the only door, one along the south chimney, which have been reconstructed of the original cut sandstone, On the ground level, the interior is undivided. An attic above a The structure is not located on the original site, which was a lot near larger brick building. In 1941, when the brick structure was demolished, glass enclosed cupola was added to the roof, and, until 1945 the building corner, two placques, outlining the history of the building, were set CONDITION DESCRIPTION survived. Ruins REGISTER Fort Steuben Bridge. NATIONAL landscaped to conform with the character of the building.
board ceiling served as a sleeping area and was reached by a staircase the exact date is not known, the building was moved to the corner of with clapboards, and the roof is covered with wooden shingles. in the southeast corner of the room.None of the original furnishings added, new chinking placed between the walls and furnishings from the After the last move, the structure was refurbished.A new floor was Washington and Third Streets, and in 1828,it was enclosed in a much are 1ocated near the center of the north wall.The gables are covered Route 22 near the summit of the range of hills west of the city.A 22,and the following year it was moved to a small park at the junction the log building was moved to a site west of Steubenville along U.S.
In 1964 the structure was threatened by the reconstruction of U.S.Route was used asa lookout post for enemy aircraft. of U.S. Route 22 and Ohio Route 7 just south of the west end of the NOV 30 1972 Excellent - Good - Fair - Original Site the intersection of Market and Third Streets in Steubenville.
early example of log architecture. Only Newcom Tavern at Dayton, Ohio Political Social/Human very good condition.Even the logs on the southern side of the The building is ordinance which provided for the rectangular survey of the lands west of the Ohio River.In 1786 surveying parties began plotting the United States...".Cuming also observed that Perhaps this is large sums in Spanish dollars are sent annually to the treasury of and 1800) are older than the Steubenville structure. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE(Check One or More as Appropriate) and Historical Quarterly, VI (1898), Pp. 181-217. Nos. III, IV, 1971, combined. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY (/2 acre) County, Ohio.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001482, 20 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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