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 Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located in Buckeye, Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 10 National Register listings in Jackson County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.75001442- 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.
Fires near this property
20 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge between
2007 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Debris and open burning
7
Arson/incendiarism
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 539 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge between 1878 and
1974: 252 Animalia, 221 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 'Odell, D., Bartley, F., Brown, H P 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 National Weather Service names
Wellston, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 3 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.
Multiple large trees were blown down by thunderstorms winds. The winds also removed the underpinning from a mobile home, and blew over a chest freezer that was stored outside.
Rains of 1.5 to 2.5 inches fell in less than 3 hours over saturated grounds. Streams such as Pigeon Creek and Sugar Run overflowed over roads. Urban flooding also occurred. From the 15th thru the 18th the city of Jackson had 5.5 inches of rain.
Thunderstorms moved rapidly south through Ohio, producing a gust front on its' leading edge. Trees and power lines were blown down. Winds gusted to around 60 mph.
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
1,748 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.
Statement of significance
covered bridges of which there is any record, this bridge 1s a Smith nace and covered bridge, lies within the Wayne National Forest. west and continued to serve this area ling after the old furnace DEC31 1974 Conservation Commerce Engineering Communications SIGNIFICANCE Science losophy NATIONAL Military Architecture Aboriginal Music REGISTER RECEIVED Invention Education itarian Agriculture Pre-Columbian Social/Human- Political home of its inventor, and many of our largest and finest covered Sculpture Urban Planning span left in the vicinity of an old iron furnace.Buckeye Furnace local labor.
The old covered bridge gave access to the furnace village from the was built some 20 years before the bridge.Like all Jackson County This bridge is historically important because it is the last such Other (Specify) Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge is in a remote section of eastern is a State Memorial and has been renovated by the Ohio Historical went out of blast in 1894 and the surrounding village disappeared. Landscape truss. This truss plan enjoyed great popularity here in Ohio, the Society who)also rebuilt the surrounding complex to look as it did Art built in l872,probably using pre-fabricated trusses erected by bridges were Smith trusses.The Buckeye Furnace Covered Bridge was Jackson County on a township road just southwest of old Buckeye
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001442, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
3 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.
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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