Newton Falls Covered Bridge

This property stands in Newton Township. History of the Newton Families of Colonial America, with American History of Family Interest Not Obtainable Elsewhere, published 1927 gives that township a chapter of its own.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Newton Falls Covered Bridge between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newton Falls Covered Bridge between 1890 and 1973: 107 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Alternaria panax Whetzel	1909	W.P. Warren	Garden of Warren
	Pleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci	1927	F.R. Jones; J.J. Davis	Newton
	Asclepias tuberosa L.	1928	Rood, Almon N.	Braceville Tp.,
	Obovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)	1890	Dean, G W	Newton Falls, mill pond
	Neogale Gray, 1865	1894	William Harvey Brown	WARREN
	Poa alsodes A.Gray	1907	Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.	Braceville Twp
	Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles	1908	Rood, A.N.	Phalanx, Braceville Twp
	Centaurea nigrescens Willd.	1908	Rood, A.N.	Phalanx
	Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.	1908	Rood, A.M.	Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1908	Rood, A.N.	Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1909	not recorded	Newton Falls, lesser branch above city
	Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864	1911	Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.)	Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A.

All 144 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton Falls, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flash 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.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull County

Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in one, read straight off the scanned sheet.

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  Church, at Newton Falls

  Church

  Named in 1898 1902

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.

The whole case file for this property - 1,795 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001636, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Newton Falls United Service Organization (USO) Center	0.4 miles	2018
	Mason, John Wesley, Gothic Cottage	4.0 miles	1975
	McCorkle, Almon G., House	6.8 miles	1982