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
one of 75 National Register listings in Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: Site · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lake County.
National Register reference number.74001543- 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
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Indian Point Fort between
2002 and 2002, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 1,143 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Indian Point Fort between 1864 and
1975: 845 Animalia, 176 Plantae, 102 Fungi, 11 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Indian Point Fort: 1 past producer, 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
Painesville, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood.
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.
A thunderstorm downburst downed dozens of trees and damaged several homes. The damage path began near Liberty Street in Painesville and continued east along Prouty Road to near State Route 44 in Concord. A mobile home was crushed by a fallen tree in Concord.
Many large trees downed in Painesville. One tree pierced the roof of a nursing home with branches ending up less than a foot away from an elderly woman laying in bed. Three classic cars were severely damaged when the garage they were in was destroyed by a fallen tree. A brand new sport utility vehicle was also destroyed by a fallen tree. An additional dozen trees were downed to the east of Painesville in North Perry.
Around noon on January 23rd, local officials reported the jam at the mouth of the river at Lake Erie extending as far south (upstream) as the Route 2 bridge near Painesville. The resulting backwater caused flooding of outbuildings along the river on Richmond Street and Ram Island, and flooded the Fairport Harbor Marina. Some storage equipment was flushed out into the lake. The Coast Guard ice cutter was sent in to remove the jam on the night of the 23rd.
2 papers 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
1,722 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
In Perry Township, Lake County, Ohio, approximately 4.0 miles east of probably for defensive purposes, at the eastern access to the ridge..
approaching from the east, there is an area of flat stones crossing the 12 feet wide and 4 to 5 feet deep, while the wall is 20 feet wide and down to the Grand River at the west end of the point, which would have FEB 2 8 1974 CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins almost totally hidden by leaves and humus;whether they represent Indian Indian Point because of the prehistoric earthworks that were erected, end of the point but erosion has destroyed it.It is possible to climb features cross the promontory from north to south except for a break in Whittlesey also described a smaller wall and ditch at the extreme west not mentioned in the site description given by Whittlesey prior to 1850.
of Paine Creek and the Grand River.From this point of land the shale The dirt from the ditch was piled to the west to form the wall.Both been necessary to obtain water for a village located on the bluff.The have a gate in the stockade to facilitate their own coming and going. Painesville a long, narrow promontory has been formed at the confluence Indian Point is now owned and operated by the Lake County Metropolitan Park District.A nature trail leads to the end of the point.When third wall was probably to protect this difficult access. ridge (north-south) in a path only several feet wide.These cobbles are north being 66 feet long and the wall to the south being 55 feet.This Fifty feet to the west is the first ditch and wall of the fortification.
hooks and netssecured to grooved or notched net sinkers.
were Ohio's last prehistoric people, for written records describing FEB 2 8 1974 Commerce Military Architecture REGISTER Engineering Conservation Aboriginal NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE Literature Art Communications Music Education Agriculture losophy Prehistoric Landscape they practiced extensive agriculture in the fields surrounding the northern Ohio begin about the time of their disappearance.This remains of small circular houses and deep storage pits.These pits The naturally steep embankments of the ridge and the stockade pro- the understanding of their everday life.Its inclusion in a metro- attributed to the Erie Indians.These Indians lived on hilltops RECEIVED Urban Planning the embankments and the tip of the point there are probably the it for future generations and further interpretation.
use the bow and arrow for hunting to supplement the corn, beans, and Religion/Phi Indian Point is the site of a prehistoric village and fortification Sculpture would be used for storing corn and later for disposing of refuse or pumpkins that they grew.They also fished in the rivers using both ceramic material which is valuable in diagnostic interpretation of well-preserved village site of approximately 5 acres may aid in Social/Human- burying the dead.Most Erie sites also produce a large quantity of the cultural afinity of the people. villages were located within palisades with exterior ditches, and The Erie were destroyed as a nation by the Iroquois in 1654.They Industry 1000 A.D. - 1654 A.D. vided a safe location for an Erie village on Indian Point.
Between itarian community.Erie Indians were the first Ohio prehistoric people to politan park and placement on the National Register will help preserve overlooking streams and rivers that emptied into Lake Erie.Their
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001543, 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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