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Schafer House, photograph from the federal nomination
Schafer House, photograph from the federal nomination

Photographs from the nomination case file, National Park Service records.

Schafer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1931.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clermont County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Neville off U.S. 52, Neville, 45120
  • When was it listed? 1974-05-13
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 74001417 - 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Schafer House between 2002 and 2007, burning about 22 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 February 2002Recreation and ceremony11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Clermont County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 82 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 82 specimens collected within 10 miles of Schafer House between 1896 and 1974: 68 Animalia, 12 Fungi, 1 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Bureau of Fisheries, Culberson W. L. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1896A.M BradfordBradford
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521927J. GallowayBig Run, (L. Miami Riv. Basin)
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 18021930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1931Weller, W. H. (Worth Hamilton)near Clermontville, Monroe Twp., Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Weller, W. H. (Worth Hamilton) & Dury, R. (Ralph)near Clermontville, Monroe Twp., Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Weller, W. H. (Worth Hamilton) & Maslowski, K. (Karl)Clermontville, Monroe Twp., Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Taphrina deformans, not of this specimenTaphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1934Jones FrancesMoscow

All 82 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Schafer House: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black River Mining LimekilnStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPlant
Pendleton County UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Tornado (F1)Neville$30,000A tornado touched down near U.S. Highway 52 and destroyed a 100 by 40-foot metal barn. Debris of the barn was found one-half mile away. Several large trees were also downed.
May 1996Tornado (F0)Neville$30,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNeville$20,000Dozens of trees and power poles downed along Highway 52 due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindNeville$10,000Numerous trees were damaged along with some outbuildings.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNeville$10,000no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNeville$4,000A few trees were downed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNeville$3,000Several Trees knocked down in Neville.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNeville$2,000A large tree and wires were downed.

Every storm recorded in Clermont County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

From the nomination file

3,026 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

original house, made of white painted bricks, was 45 feet wide and 35 feet located in the wings.The main bedroom and a bath are located on the Colonial double-hung windows with shutters.The first floor of the RECEIVED of Colonial design.With the addition of two single-story wings in the PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Political - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Religion/Phi- ] Science ] Sculpture ] Social/Human- - Military ] Theater - Transportation Generals Grant and Sherman were guests in the house. SEP 14 1973 Architecture Communications Conservation Aboriginal REGISTER Commerce Engineering losophy Literature NATIONAL Education Agriculture Music across the river in Kentucky.

Landscape Industry Schafer and Ulysses S. Grant had become friends at West Point and STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

SIGNIFICANCE Other(Specify) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE(Check One or More as Appropriate) Art Invention Construction was unique in that it was built by slaves that were quartered Clermont County Historical Society, Batavia, Ohio, 1966 DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Charles R.

Johnson, Outdoor Recreation Planner State Liaison Officer recommendation: In compliance with Executive Order 11593, I hereby Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation nominate this property to the National Register, certify- ing that the State Liaison Officer has been allowed 90 days in which to present the nomination to the State Re- - National (X State GPO 938-449 054 Huntington Degrees LATITUDE LONGITUDE Seconds Date Minutes West Virginia STATE CORNER ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds Corps of Engineers PHONE: COUNTY: CODE NATIONAL BUSINESS ADDRESS: State Liaison Officer Signature National Register LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES 502 8th Street 16 April 1973

The whole case file for this property - 3,026 words, 22 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001417, 22 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District7.3 miles1998
William Winter Stone House7.7 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001417 in Record Group 79.
Clermont CountyAll 19 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.