Built in 1883. 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 Ballard Road Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Built in the late nineteenth century and since bypassed, the bridge has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Ballard Road Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1883 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.75001408- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 913 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 913 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ballard Road Covered Bridge between 1870 and
1975: 653 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 116 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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 Ballard Road Covered Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jamestown, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado.
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.
The beginning of this tornado is believed to have occurred along South Charleston Road where homes on both sides of the road had multiple large hardwood trees snapped. One residence also had a shed completely destroyed and metal from the shed was blown into the field.||On the next road east across the field, on Rogers Road, the most significant damage from the tornado was observed. The second story of one home had much of its roof removed and had multiple interior walls collapsed. Tree damage was also significant at this property as well as at nearby residences on Rogers Road.||Further east, at a property along Watkins Road, a roof was ripped off of a barn, with a shed completely destroyed. A bit further to the east, along Sheley Road, a home and garage had siding removed. Several hardwood trees were snapped in this area as well. A barn roof was also removed south of the intersection of Sheley and Rogers Road. Windows were also blown out at another property along Sheley Road. No further damage was observed to the east of Sheley Road.
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
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From the nomination file
2,343 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
OI Jamestown in New Jasper Township, Greene County, Ohio. This bridge has vertical, high-boarded siding, a metal roof, straight portals with 1st panel braces are 2-8" x 6" and the counterbrace is 1-6" x 4"; the the bridge is double, with the bottom layer laid on the diagonal and and portals are painted a deep red, somewhat faded now, and there is a MAR 1 2 1975 CONDITION Excellent REGISTER NATIONAL Ruins Moved RECEIVED could be adjusted and tightened by means of turnbuckles and nuts.This were built on the railroad and highway system of our young country. the upper floor laid longitudinally. verticals of earlier truss types were replaced here by iron rods which roof overhang, and limestone abutments laid with mortar. covered bridge.
The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered reason for the great popularity of the Howe truss was that the wooden green and white sign on each portal urging preservation of the old end for the all-wooden truss. The Howe truss was perfeot for both rail- The Howe truss was quite popular in Greene County and the Ballard Road (Check One) The center panel of the bridge consists of a single brace,8"x the bridge, 1k" on the 2nd panel, and le" on the end panels.
The upper Good road and highway use and literally thousands of these sturdy bridges Fair was a great advance in bridge engineering and was the beginning of the This is known as the Ballard Road Bridge and is built on the popular a 74'clear span.The roadway width is 15'8"and the bridge is19'4 2nd panel braces are 2-6" x7 and the counterbrace is 1-5t"x 6";the chords are 2-7" x 9# and the 1ower chords are 2-7"x 12".The floor of PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!
scenic. In Tact, covered bridge expert RichardS . Allen, in his book, Covered Bridges of the Middle West, refers to this bridge as MAR 1 2 1975 Conservation Communications losophy Architecture Commerce Military National Register. Transportation RECEIVED REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Theater Religion/Phi Aboriginal Landscape Music Prehistoric Literature Agriculture Invention Education itarian Sculpture Political Social/Human- Industry The Ballard Road Covered Bridge is one of only l8 Howe truss.covered The exact building date of the Ballard Road Covered Bridge is unknown, mill in the area.The road and covered bridge take their name from nearby historic Dean farmhouse form one of the few historic sites in New Jasper Township.
The Dean family were early settlers in this from one of the limestone quarries nearby in New Jasper Township.We but it may have been about 1850 when Lyman Ballard established a grist area and their old farmhouse is being nominated separately for the spans remaining here in Ohio and is without a doubt one of the most 18th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art Mr. Ballard.The limestone abutments for this bridge undoubtedly came found that county atlases and histories have little to say about New the area.It would seem that the Ballard Road Covered Bridge and the about 1850 "One of Ohio's prettiest covered bridge settings. 1970, pages 42 and 43.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001408, 17 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.
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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