Built in 1874. 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 Scottown Covered Bridge, near Scottown, Ohio, was built in 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Scottown Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1874.
National Register reference number.75001456- 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
91 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Scottown Covered Bridge between
2003 and 2020, burning about 1,160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 were 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
36
Debris and open burning
29
Arson/incendiarism
23
Other causes
1
Natural
1
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 769 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Scottown Covered Bridge between 1840 and
1974: 562 Animalia, 103 Plantae, 81 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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
Scottown, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
An eleven year old boy drowned in Indian Guyan Creek, swollen by the rains of the preceding evening. Rains of 2 to 3 inches were common in the vicinity, with Lesage measuring 3.1 inches, Willow Wood at 2.35 inches and Hogsett, West Virginia with 2.48 inches. The location was near the covered bridge at the junction of Routes 217 and 67. According to the Windsor Township Fire Chief, the boy waded through shallow water, only to step off the bank into much deeper water. After the water levels had receded, his body was found a few days later, about a mile downstream.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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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
1,915 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
piece segmented arch on each side of each truss. In addition, the bridge is heavily reinforced with steel channels, gussets, I-beams CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT UNALTERED wise. FAIR The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered CHECK ONE This bridge has sheet metal siding and roof, stone abutments with con- The truss type of this bridge has been a matter of some disagreement The Scottowm Bridge is in good condition. The roof was replaced in crete reinforcements and straight portals. original stone with concrete reinforcements at the bridge seat. We counterbraces in the center two panels. The bridge also has a three do not know when the original siding, which was undoubtedly wood, east of Scottown in Windsor Township section l3, Lawrence County, Ohio.
was replaced with the present sheet metal tion of the basic triangular multiple kingpost with added braces and 197l and the roofing company furnished signs for each portal which and rods, both inside and outside the structure. The overall length is l3'6 and the vertical clearance is ll.The floor is laid cross- it is a mongrel or unknown truss type.We feel that it is an adapta- read "scottown Bridge,1874#:he abutments of the bridge are the of this bridge is 88'with a floor length of 80'.The overall width X-GOOD AREAS OF SIGNIFIGANCE .- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION -EDUCATION - &ENGINEERING MUSIC X 1800-1899 -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
1500-1599 1400-1499 INVENTION THEATER Historical ART PHILOSOPHY EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD RELIGION PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _ECONOMICS SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY 1900- SCULPTURE LITERATURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN The Scottown Covered Bridge is in good condition and is an outstanding built here in Lawrence County and they are fortunate that this unusual LAW truss bridges to experiment with several different combinations of tim- the crossroads community of Scottown one-half mile to the west.The ber arrangements and then to come up with something which defies accu- heavily reinforced with steel rods, gussets, channels and I-beams that _TRANSPORTATION the southernmost covered bridge in Ohio.
Not many covered bridges were rate description. The marks of the old hand-adze can still be seen on some of the timbers of this bridge.Over the years this bridge has been The Scottown Covered Bridge lies within the historic Hanging Rock Iron ted by the tulips planted by the south portalsl _COMMUNICATIONS The Scottown Covered Bridge was built in l874 and takes its name from example of l9th century engineering skills. service, that those who live near the bridge care about it, as indica- -1600-1699 been added at the bridge seat of the abutments. -1700-1799 _COMMERCE _SCIENCE _ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC._COMMUNITY PLANNING structure.
It 1s obvious, as the bridge enters its second century of 1874 Concrete reinforcements have bridge is situated over scenic Indian Guyan Creek just south off SR have been added to its wooden trusses. ple kingpost. It was not at all unusual for builders of these wooden
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001456, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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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