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 21 National Register listings in Wood County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Wood County.
National Register reference number.74001653- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Spafford House between
2002 and 2002, burning about 5 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 ceremony
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 274 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Spafford House between 1875 and
1975: 235 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Angle, E. (Eric) 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 Spafford House: 2 plants, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Perrysburg, the town this property stands in, in 65 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 32 thunderstorm wind, 29 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Hail to tennis ball size fell for several minutes and accumulated on the ground to a depth of over six inches at some locations. The hail plugged many storm sewers causing water to back up into the basements of several homes. Dozens of vehicles and many homes were damaged and hundreds of trees were completely stripped of leaves.
Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated to be as much as 70 mph caused considerable damage in Perrysburg. Dozens of trees and at least three utility poles were toppled. A few homes were damaged by fallen trees. Scattered power outages were reported.
Thunderstorm winds blew over two fully loaded semi trucks six miles east of Perrysburg near the intersection of Interstates 80/90 and 280. Both trucks were severely damaged. The roof of a large building nearby was also torn off.
On March 12th an ice jam formed on the Maumee River. By the 14th the ice had backed in the town of Perrysburg. A farm sustained damages when about two feet of topsoil was removed in an area farm with thousands of dollars in economic loss. The Buttonwood Park in Perrysburg also sustained damages but no buildings were impacted.
A funnel cloud was observed along Interstate 75 near Perrysburg. Trained spotters tracked the funnel for several minutes as it drifted slowly northeast. Although persistent rotation was observed, the funnel did not come in contact with the ground at any time. The funnel may have been a cold air funnel.
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
1,252 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
sites of the War of 1812, the Spafford House was built high, on dry is 2 1/2 rooms deep with the hall to one side. A one-story, shed -roofed fortunately, is being patiently and accurately restored by the present DEC 5 CONDITION Excellent NATIONAL owners. REGISTER Ruins The simple,2-story frame building sits on a foundation of dressed stone The interior is plain and nearly Shaker-like.The original building Fair are six over six with simple wood framing.The fine entrance is flanked addition is found to the rear. (Check One) door has a glass transom and sidelights.There isa fan window high * Good - of the house was listed as $500.00 salvage value.
The property, and is an excellent example of a country version of Greek revival style The historic house had fallen into a severe state of disrepair. Evaluation RECEIVED land. by simple pilasters and a complete entablature.The slightly recessed in the gable.
Statement of significance
first permanent settlers in Wood County, the Spaffords. Amos Spafford, head of the family, was a major in the Battle of Fort During the battles of 1812 and 1813, Spafford, along with other pioneers, took his family to Huron County for safety. After the war, Amos' son, Samuel, built the first inn in the area, known as the Aurora Spafford, another of Spafford's sons, was a Methodist preacher locally-significant Spafford family, but for its architectural DEC 5 design. Commerce Conservation losophy Greenville. Transportation Science Aboriginal Engineering Architecture NATIONAL Communications Military Perry.
Landscape REGISTER Literature Invention Music Sculpture Industry Urban Planning and helped found the first Methodist congregation in the Maumee Exchange Hotel.Samuel was also president of the First Exchange Bank, and co-owner of the Perrysburg Mills. the setting for many religious services before a church was built. Education Religion/Phi. Agriculture United States Reservation which was set aside by the 1795 Treaty of the first postmaster.Amos Spafford was granted 160 acres of land on Meigs in the War of 18l2.He was Collector of the Port of Miami and The house was built in the 1830's by a family which was counted as the the south side of the Maumee River by the U.S.Government in 1818.The PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (Il Applicable and Known) ca.
1830 The Spafford House is notable not only for its connection with the Art RECEIVED house is on this land which was part of the Twelve Mile Square the family returned and Amos gave the town of Perrysburg its name in
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001653, 8 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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