Putnam Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Muskingum County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Bounded by Penn Central RR. tracks, Van Buren St., and the Muskingum River, Zanesville
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. district
National Register reference number. 75001511 - 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.

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Putnam Historic District, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet covering Putnam Historic District, surveyed 1910

Fires near this property

58 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Putnam Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	32
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15277
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15278
28 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15264
1 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15236
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15772
2 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12325
2 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12945
19 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12326

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Putnam Historic District: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Armco Inc/ Zanesville, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Granite Plant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Muskingum R. Plant No 1 Mine & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 3 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plant Number 4 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Salt Creek Materials Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000

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
Charles Brendel House	0.2 miles	1980
William R. Smith House	0.3 miles	1982
Nicholas Christman House	0.3 miles	1978
Zanesville YMCA	0.4 miles	2023
Lilienthal Building	0.4 miles	1980
US Post Office and Federal Building-Zanesville	0.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001511 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Muskingum County	All 81 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.
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.