Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. 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 Carroll County Courthouse is located in Carrollton, Ohio, and is the second for the county. It was designed by architect Frank Weary in the Second Empire style.”
Wikipedia article Carroll County Courthouse (Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 11 National Register listings in Carroll County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001406- 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
22 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Carroll County Courthouse between
2004 and 2020, burning about 71 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
Debris and open burning
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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 278 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Carroll County Courthouse between 1929 and
1975: 207 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.W. Cusick, Allen, E. J., Ash, G. (Gail), Buchanan, F. W. (Forrest W.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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 Carroll County Courthouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Iron. 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
Carrollton, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 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.
Lightning injured 6 people at a soccer game as they sat in lawn chairs. Some were holding umbrellas. Lightning struck the umbrella of a 37-year old man. He was critically injured. Three other adults and 2 children were slightly injured.
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has confirmed an EF1 tornado in the city of Carrollton on Saturday afternoon May 25th.|||The tornado touched down in a wooded area off of Crest |Street then lifted briefly across Canton Road NW before tearing the top of a |large hardwood tree behind the McDonald's. The worst of the damage |was an overturned single wide mobile home. There were shingles off |several other mobile homes within the mobile home park. A metal shed |was also destroyed. Intermittent touchdowns continued causing minor |damage and shingles off the roofs of a few homes along N Lisbon |Street. Numerous hardwood trees behind the aforementioned street |were snapped mid way up in a ravine.
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.
From the nomination file
1,398 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
is constructed of smooth stone. Basically rectangular in plan, the 40 feet above the peak of the roof. Each face of the tower has two with aluminum sash. RECEIVED in good condition. divided flights.The interior has also been modified by lowering the in gables above the roofline.These gables are flanked by chimneys. The floors are separated by belt courses of smooth PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| | 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Science - Transportation Stark, Tuscarawas, Harrison and Jefferson Counties.
This county was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last occupied the old building was auctioned off for $196 and its bell SEP 3 0 1974= 1884-1885 losophy buildings. Engineering Architecture Commerce Military Conservation Communications Aboriginal Religion/Phi
Statement of significance
Carroll County was formed in 1833 from portions of Columbiana, The first courthouse was a small brick building built circa 1835. The new building was completed in 1885 on a site adjacent to was laid out as Centreville by Peter Bohart in Octover 4,1815. cost of $109,900. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) The courthouse is a good example of a late nineteenth century Art commissioners decided to construct a new building and they Ohio county courthouse. Architecturally iis a reaction to the Bohart had settled in the area about 18l0.Its name was changed West Summit Press, 1973. American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001406, 11 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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