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
“Story Mound State Memorial is a Native American burial mound located in a residential area of Chillicothe, Ohio. The mound is conical with a diameter of 95 feet (29 m) and a height of 19.5 feet (5.9 m).”
Wikipedia article Story Mound State Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.73001529- 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
23 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Story Mound State Memorial between
2002 and 2020, burning about 49 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
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
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 1,799 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Story Mound State Memorial between 1874 and
1975: 1,304 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 Story Mound State Memorial: 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
1,435 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
The Story Mound State Memorial, a large mortuary structure, but it was reported that bark fragments single extended inhumation, representing the Inapping toolkit. Commerce Conservation losophy Architecture Communications Prehistoric Military Aboriginal Engineering Religion/Phi Art Landscape Theater Literature NATIONAL Education Transportation Science Music Social/Human- three deer antler tines representing a flint- Political square-bottomed vertical posts ranging from inclusion in the National Register because it is itarian The structure revealed by the early excavation Adena ceremonial and domestic architecture.
Sculpture Invention since become better understood as the norm in of Adena architectural norms and because it has structure erected by a prehistoric Adena Indian been restored and maintained for public benefit The Story Mound State Memorial is nominated for posthole pattern was all that remained of the projectile points, one of them comprising nine diameter of fifteen feet, and composed of as a classic example of the Adena mortuary complex. burial of a young male individual and accompanied by three slate gorgets and a number of bone beads.
Urban Planning four to twelve inches in diameter and driven to Near the skeleton were two caches of Adena stemmed to be considered a type site for the recognition points and the other six points associated with Agriculture Industry the timber structure near its North wall lay a was nearly a perfect circle in plan, with a Excavated in 1897 by Clarence Loveberry by means a depth of five feet below the mound floor;the Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) group ca. 500 B.C.-400 A.D., played a significant of a tunneling operation, the mound yielded the timber building--a structural type which has first documented example of a circular Adena role in the development of Ohio archaeology. 500 B.C.-400 A.D. 1. Moorehead, W.K.
1899 Report of Field Work in Various Portions of Ohio.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001529, 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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