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 Renick House, also known as "Paint Hill", is a historic house in western Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1804, it is a two-story stone structure in the shape of the letter "L".”
Wikipedia article Renick House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001528- 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
29 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Renick House, Paint Hill between
2002 and 2020, burning about 65 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
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Recreation and ceremony
4
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 1,799 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Renick House, Paint Hill between 1874 and
1975: 1,306 Animalia, 397 Fungi, 84 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 Renick House, Paint Hill: 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.
From the nomination file
1,249 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
This "L" shaped Virginia-style home was built on Paint Hill by architect Presley Morris for George Renick, a settler from Hardy County Virginia. Constructed of Waverly sandstone quarried nearby, the home was completed in 1804. The "L" was the first section to be completed and now stands to the rear facade of this portion has three bays with the doorway to the south end. The front, or main house, was completed in 1804. The facade of the two- side of the entrance, and the three windows on the second level, are all end chimneys, while the rear portion has a central chimney. The walls are 23 inches thick - built to withstand the ravages of weather The kitchen originally was a stone building entirely separate from the was later connected to the house by a frame, two-story addition.
To The roof of the entrance porch is also not original. transferred to the First Presbyterian Society in 1956 as a site for its new church now situated on the knoll beneath Paint Hill. MAR 9 1973 CONDITION REGISTER Ruins NATIONAL the west of the front block. The frame structure is faced with matching The home is well maintained and carefully landscaped.It is considered sandstone with siding on the end and rear. Original Site the rear of the kitchen a frame garage has been added. [X Excellent - Good -] Fair rooms- two below and two above. They were connected by narrow stairways leading from the lower rooms to the rooms directly above. The west one of the showplaces of the area. It was restored by Mr. & Mrs.
George Renick settled permanently in Chillicothe around 1802. 1803 Ohio gained statehood and, in that year, George Renick and his Cattle which held its first sale of Registered Shorthorns in the United States in 1835 on the Renick farm. were fed to cattle - but prices for beef also fell to the bottom with no good market. George Renick decided to drive 96 head of fat cattle from the Scioto Valley to Baltimore, Maryland where they were much in George Renick became a hero among the farmers and cattlemen of this as an example of the architectural style of that period in Chillicothe.
MAR 1804 1973 Commerce Communications Conservation Theater Military losophy Landscape REGISTER Science SIGNIFICANCE Literature Aboriginal NATIONAL Industry Education itarian Music Invention Sculpture Engineering Urban Planning Transportation Social/Human- Political Religion/Phi. overland drives in this country. American livestock history.The farmers of the virgin soil of the of cattle in the United States and the beginning of an experience of It was in 1804 that George Renick made his notable contribution to Paint Creek River valley had wonderful crops-but no market.Crops His home remains today as a fine monument to this important man and brother Felix bought the entire stock of blooded Patton cattle.He AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) agricultural area.
The whole economy of the valley was saved. was a stockholder in the famous Ohio Company for Importing English RECEIVED demand.This was the first instance of an extended overland drive Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001528, 9 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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