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
“The Canal Warehouse is a historic warehouse at the intersection of Main and Mulberry Streets in downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1830, along the Ohio and Erie Canal, this three-story brick building is an ornate gabled structure with large dormers set into both sides of the main roof.”
Wikipedia article Canal Warehouse (Chillicothe, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001522- 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
25 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Canal Warehouse between
2002 and 2020, burning about 52 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
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
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 1,785 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Canal Warehouse between 1874 and
1975: 1,290 Animalia, 397 Fungi, 86 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist 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 Canal Warehouse: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chillicothe, the town this property stands in, in 92 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 56 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 6 flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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.
Problems with high water occurred across the county. A roof of a gas station on the west side of Chillicothe collapsed under the weight of the heavy rain.
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
Robert Gaede, the noted architectural historian from Cleveland, classed known of the date of the warehouse, but it was built during the time three stories, with three gabled overhung dormers on each side of the these have small lights and are in excellent condition, as they have front, there are one hundred windows in the building in good condition.
for recent advertising, the building is in its original state as far CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL The outstanding features of the interior are the many l2-inch square beam$ Ruins Unaltered entries.Together with the six windows on the two upper stories in of the Ohio-Erie Canal, which suggests 1830 or thereabouts.It is 1973 connect with doors which in turn extend to the street.These doors supported by 12-inch square bracketed posts, these extend at intervals full basement.Aside from boardgon the windows and signs of paper entries, each recessed and approached by three stone slab steps; each (Check One) RECEIVED the entry;additional large display windows are on each side of these is bordered by two windows flush with the street and two sloping into roof.The windows of these dormers extend from the third storey and were used for loading merchandise from the upper storey into canal as can be determined.
APR 5 boats. on each side there are 14 windows on each of the three floors; - Moved for the depth of the building, which is half a city block. It has a Excellent been boarded up for many years to protect them. The front has double this as one of the finest examples of canal warehouses.Little is Good
Statement of significance
connection with the past, as it stands in the center of Chillicothe, in July 1973 of transportation, but there is great interest in Chillicothe for APR 1973 Conservation Architecture Commerce Military Engineering Transportation Communications losophy REGISTER Science Theater Industry Aboriginal Religion/Phi Landscape NATIONAL Prehistoric Music Literature Agriculture itarian Social/Human- Sculpture Political can receive matching funds for its repair and restoration;the Antique totally lost to the public eye.It could be a striking visual in the history of United States commerce and transportation now almost the automobile continues to obliterate past evidences of other forms Education This building is of historic value as it clearly reflects a period restoring evidence of the canal.
Car Association of Southern Ohio wants to use it as a museum if they AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) RECEIVED Ohio and would be appreciated by many travelers were it restored.The present owners plan to tear it down/to make a parking lot unless they can buy it and get matching funds. It appears that it may be lost as The Ohio-Erie Canal linked Lake Erie and the Ohio River in the 19th century
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001522, 10 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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