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Noble, Jonathan, House

Built in 1830. 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 Jonathan Noble House, also known as the Reiner Log House, is a historic house in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The house was built c. 1830 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Jonathan Noble House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1830 · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 5030 Westerville Rd. (SR 3), Columbus, 43231
When was it listed? 1975-12-03
Category. building
Township. Columbus city
When was it built? 1830
National Register reference number. 75001400 - 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 - Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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The ground it stands on

895,918 words

The chapter on Columbus City in History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 names Columbus. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

From the first organization of the State government in 1803, until 1816, there was no permanent seat of State government. The sessions of the Legislature were held at Chillicothe until 1810, and the sessions of 1810-11, and 1811-12, were held at Zanesville, and from thence they were removed back to Chillicothe, and there remained until December, 1816, when the first session commenced in Columbus.

Passage source: History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858.

No further definite action, however, was had on the subject until February, 1812, when the law was passed establishing it at Columbus. Various proposals were received, offering inducements for its establishment at different points, and amongst the rest were the proposals of Lyne Starling, James Johnston, Alexander McLaughlin and John Kerr, for establishing it on the '-' high bank of the Scioto River, opposite Franklinton," which site was principally a native forest. Franklinton was then at its apex, and a town of considerably more consequence than it now is, and was one of the sites proposed ; but the plan upon which it was laid out, and more particularly its low situation, were considered sufficient objections to its adoption. Worthington and Delaware were also among the sites proposed.

Passage source: History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Noble, Jonathan, House between 2007 and 2007, burning about 0 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	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 October 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 10,401 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 10,401 specimens collected within 10 miles of Noble, Jonathan, House between 1804 and 1975: 8,405 Animalia, 1,277 Fungi, 571 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni	1900	Tyler, F.J.; O. E. Jennings	Columbus
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench	1900	Jennings, O.E.	Columbus, Ohio.
Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana	1804	Dr. Paddock	Worthington
Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.	1805	J. R. Paddock	Worthington
Carex comosa Boott	1809	Collector unknown	Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
Hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	1814	not recorded	Columbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA
Callimome strobiloides Huber, 1927	1821	C. Huber	Columbus
Solidago riddellii Frank	1832	W. A. Kellerman	A few miles N of Columbus.
Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1834	Anonymous	Columbus.
Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor	1837	W. S. Sullivant	Near Columbus
Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947	1897	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	Clevenger, J. F.	Columbus

All 10,401 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

60 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbus, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 56 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 13 flash flood, 11 flood. The reports record 9 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	4 hurt, $5,000	Trees were downed, some on power lines. Four golfers were injured after lightning struck the shelter house they entered to take shelter from the storm.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	4 hurt, $5,000	Trees were downed at several locations. Winds were measured at 59 mph at Port Columbus Airport. Four men were injured at an outdoor amphitheater when the tent they occupied was blown over.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	1 hurt, $50,000	A microburst, with winds estimated to be between 80 and 100 mph, struck the west side of Columbus, destroying roofs of two industrial buildings. The debris from the roofs stretched 600 yards. A tractor-semitrailer was also blown over, injuring one male.
June 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Columbus	$100,000	Damage was first observed on Deserette Court. The west-facing\|side of several housing units had shutters torn off and also\|experienced minor siding damage. This is where it appears the\|tornado first touched down.\|\|On the opposite side of Deserette Court, additional shutter and\|siding damage was observed, and primarily affected the east-facing\|side of the housing units.\|\|Damage continued to the east onto Boyleston Boulevard, with the\|garage door of one home completely destroyed and walls of the\|garage experiencing significant damage. Siding and roof damage was\|also observed on this home, and damage is assessed to be in the\|EF0 category, with winds around 80 mph. An eyewitness also stated\|that she was looking west and saw a tornado moving toward\|Boyleston Boulevard.\|\|A swath of damage continued to the east, affecting homes along\|Niantic Drive and Hingham Lane. Much of the damage was associated\|with trees, where large tree branches in the back yards of\|several homes on both Niantic Drive and Hingham Lane were snapped.\|A convergent pattern was observed from 10 to 12 inch diameter tree\|branches. Some damage to homes was also observed, including a\|large portion of siding being stripped off the east-facing side of\|a two story home. Minor roof damage was also noted on several\|homes.\|\|Damage became more sparse further east along Hingham Lane and was\|confined to a few large hardwood tree branches being snapped off.
June 1994	Hail	Columbus	$50,000	Lightning struck several buildings causing fires and destroying one home.
July 2011	Flash Flood	South Columbus	$30,000	Cars were stalled in moving water with water up to hoods of some cars on High Street due to heavy rain.
July 2002	Flash Flood	Columbus	$22,000	Two to three feet of water on some roads submerged some cars and caused others to float. On Leonard Street and 5th Avenue, a foot of water was entering the main level of some homes.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$20,000	Several large old growth hardwood trees were blown down in Schiller Park due to thunderstorm winds. Large branches also fell on vehicles.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$20,000	Roofing materials were removed from several buildings, a gutter was blown down, power lines were downed, and fencing was partially blown over in northeastern Columbus due to damaging thunderstorm winds. These winds also blew a large tree down onto a house on Schleppi Road.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Columbus	$20,000	Several people were rescued from their vehicles at the intersection of Karl Road and Norris Drive.
April 2007	Hail	Columbus	$20,000	Penny to golf ball size hail fell from downtown Columbus into the eastern suburbs.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$10,000	Damage occurred to the roof of a grocery store and trees were uprooted due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2002	Hail	Columbus	$10,000	Event occurred on the southeast side of town.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$10,000	Numerous trees and utility poles were downed across the county.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$10,000	Trees up to one foot in diameter and a few power poles were blown down near the intersection of Interstate 71 and North Broadway.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$10,000	Several trees and large limbs downed. Barn destroyed.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$8,000	A few structures sustained minor damage. Large tree limbs were downed as well.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$7,000	A tree was reported down on a house. Large tree limbs were also reported down in the area. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$7,000	Awnings were blown off two buildings in north Columbus, while several large tree limbs were blown down across the city.
February 2002	Hail	Columbus	$7,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$5,000	Several trees were downed in Green Lawn Cemetery.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Several power poles and wires were downed onto 19th Avenue.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house in German Village.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$5,000	Trees were uprooted just north of downtown in the Short North area. Large trees were also downed in German Village.
March 2007	Flood	Columbus	$5,000	Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Columbus metro area.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Columbus	$5,000	A second batch of heavy rainfall within several hours caused flooding of streets and overpasses.
August 2000	Flash Flood	Columbus	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused flooded roads across the city.
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Trees and powerlines were knocked down in the Blendon Township area northeast of the city.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Several power lines were knocked down on the south side of Columbus.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Trees downed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Tree and power lines downed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$5,000	Large trees were downed at Route 40 and Darbydale.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$4,000	Several ten inch diameter trees were downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$3,000	Several trees were downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$3,000	Several large softwood trees were snapped.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$3,000	A few large trees were downed.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$3,000	A few large trees were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	A tree was downed onto some power lines.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	Several trees were downed on Kenlawn Street.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	The roof of a garage was partially detached from the rest of its structure due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	East Columbus	$3,000	Trees and large limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A billboard was also bent in half due to the storms.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	Three trees were knocked down, one in Clintonville and two in Westerville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$3,000	Large tree limbs were downed. Dumpsters were being blown down the street.
October 2006	Hail	Columbus	$3,000	Several trees and large limbs were downed as well in downtown Columbus.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Columbus	$3,000	Child rescued from creek which was in flood. Several roads with high water.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	Trees down on the south side of Columbus.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$3,000	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Columbus	$3,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$2,000	Large softwood trees were snapped.
August 2018	Flood	South Columbus	$2,000	Underpasses were flooded on the south side of Columbus, with some cars stuck in the water.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$2,000	Trees were reported knocked down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	South Columbus	$2,000	Trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Columbus	$2,000	Six inches of water was running across high street due to heavy rainfall.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$2,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$2,000	A few large tree limbs were knocked down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$2,000	One tree and power lines were downed near the intersection of State Route 104 and Frank Road.
October 2006	Flash Flood	Columbus	$2,000	Several roads were flooded in and around downtown Columbus.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$2,000	Four large trees were knocked down at the Raymond Memorial Golf Course.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$1,000	A healthy tree was downed on Summit Street.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus	$1,000	A two foot diameter tree was downed in Glen Echo Ravine near Indianola Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

10 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.

Newspaper	Published
Columbus Standard	1898 to 1901
The Catholic Times	1951 to Current
The Free American	1887 to 18??
Daily Ohio Statesman	1855 to 1870
Der Westbote	1843 to 1871
Der Westbote	1872 to 1918
Wochenblatt Des Westboten	1871 to 1872
Eastern Review	1958 to 1964
West Side News	1946 to 1960
West Side News and Hilltop Record	1960 to 1964

Map coverage status

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

1,702 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

Half- dovetail notching was used at the corners, which indicates a construction into two rooms by a vertical-board partition wall, the front and back doors northwest corner of the first floor. Log joists support the first floor, sawed joists the second. The second floor was probably divided into two rooms, as as was common with other houses of this type, but alterations make this difficult The lower wall logs of the exterior east side are much less weathered than the logs above the doorway, which indicates a porch could have been attached to this the house at an unknown date.
The east addition to the house probably dates soon of the northern room, and the fireplace/chimney and corner stairwell were removed, a doorway to reach the cellar stairwell, and a window added in the south 1og A doorway was cut (or a window enlarged) to allow access to the second floor It is now difficult to determine when many of these alterations were made, for it CONDITION UNEXPOSED DESCRIPTION UNALTERED DETERIORATED RUINS XALTERED in style.The remodeling was competently handled,leaving the log structure basically sound and restorable. EXCELLENT CHECK ONE entering the larger room.Both rooms had interior chimneys and roofed with asbestos shingles.A porch was built on the east and north sides.
over the two lower windows..Itis possible there were windows above the doors, roof are still in place. -GOOD The original log house was an extremely well-built log two-story structure. date after 1825 based on other Ohio examples. the first floor was divided fireplaces, which are clearly defined on the end walls. Both rooms also to ascertain at present. Pole rafters, sheathing, and a portion of the shingle original entrance. The public road was moved from the east to the west side of were most of these houses.

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Statement of significance

As common with most Ohio log houses, the exact construction date of the before 1825. In comparison with log houses of known dates, this house is typical for the period 1825-1835. It was constructed by - or for - one Jonathan Noble, a native of Connecticut, who purchased several hundred acres of land in Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1806, however, he did not come to Ohio until 1815. Noble made his living as a The Reiner house had definite architectural and historical significance: for an active Blendon Township historical committee has been unable to find another log house in their township, and are quite anxious to preserve this example. Descendants of the Noble family still live in the area and direction in what to do with the property.
If the house were protected from destruction, there is no doublt it would be maintained and restored as local funds permitted, and would be the focal point of township historical 1700-1799 preservation. LAW ECONOMICS SIGNIFICANCE INVENTION SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART PERIOD COMMUNICATIONS BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY THEATER EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT RELIGION XARCHITECTURE MILITARY LITERATURE 1900- ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE _PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN cases around the state.
OTHER(SPECIFY) are also interested in preserving the house, as are the owners of the property, _TRANSPORTATION X1800-1899 -1500-1599 _COMMERCE 1400-1499 -1600-1699 _EDUCATION 1ocal history - MUSIC It is well-canstructed and restorable and is further interesting as an past has been replaced, just added to. The house has local significance There is a present danger the house lay along the path of a proposed street Reiner house in unknown. No examples of halt-dovetail construction are known example of how an early residence was adapted and expanded to meet changing.

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The whole case file for this property - 1,702 words, 15 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001400, 15 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Osborn, Charles S., House	0.9 miles	1977
McDannald Homestead	1.7 miles	1978
Central College Presbyterian Church	2.7 miles	1980
Home for the Aged Deaf	2.8 miles	1980
Presbyterian Parsonage	2.8 miles	1980
Hart, Gideon, House	2.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001400 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 295 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.
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.