Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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 Helmick Covered Bridge, near Blissfield, Ohio, was built in 1863. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Helmick Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 16 National Register listings in Coshocton County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.75001348- 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 12 fires within 5 miles of Helmick Covered Bridge between
2005 and 2020, burning about 32 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
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Recreation and ceremony
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 1,296 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Helmick Covered Bridge between 1846 and
1974: 608 Plantae, 564 Animalia, 115 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, Albaugh, W. F., Alleshonse? O. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Helmick Covered Bridge: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Blissfield, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
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
1,841 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
Helmick in Clark Township section 18, Coshocton County, Ohio. CONDITION Unexposed roof is painted red. The structure under consideration is a two-span wooden truss from abutment to pier on both sides of both spans for added span multiple kingpost, built in two separate spans and joined tion of the supports under the north span as described above. near the north abutment and two steel I beam reinforcements handhew with the marks of the axe still plainly visible on covered bridge spanning Killbuck Creek on township road 25 at are anchored into the sills where the bridge rests on the pier. There is a heavy wooden support under the north span wooden pins called trunnels.
est known bridge truss and employs the triangular form that This is known as the Helmick Bridge and is built on the once roof, projected portals, and cut stone abutments and pier. common multiple kingpost truss plan. The kingpost is the old- times of high water was 4' of water in the bridge in the diagonals form the compression members and the center post (Check One) A concrete wedge has been added to the east end of the July l969). Killbuck Creek flows under the south span and there Excellent Good - Moved This covered bridge has vertical, high-boarded siding, a metal sections. Both spans have 7 panels and are 83! long, making an overall clear span length of 166° with a 6}' overhang at strength.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001348, 11 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.
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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