Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
“The Huffman Covered Bridge was built in 1914 south of Middleburg, Ohio. The property was listed on the National Register on March 4, 1975.”
Wikipedia article Huffman Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1914.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The chapter on Jefferson Township in History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names Middleburg. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Henry Enochs, son of Elisha Enochs, one of the pioneers of the East Fork, was an early settler south of Middleburg. He died in Lawrence County in 1886. His son, William H. Enochs, a brigadier-general in the late war, and now a prominent lawyer of Ironton, Ohio, was born on the farm south of Middleburg.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
John Hall, from Ncav England, settled on the East Fork soon after the War of 1812. He had served as a teamster in that war. He married a daughter of David Ales and lived in the same neighborhood. James S. Hall, his son, is among the oldest residents, having lived on his present farm since 1836. At that date there were very few^ settlers on the ridges. Mr. Hall, in his younger yeai*s used to go to mill in Marietta and Lowell. Marietta was the nearest trading point for all the early settlers, and there they traded maple sugar, deer skins, venison, etc., for salt and groceries. Most of the travel was on horeeback. Pack-saddles were used in place of wagons for carrying goods. Except the State Road from Barnesville to Marietta which led via Carlisle, Middleburg and Salem, there were no early roads through the township.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
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 Jefferson Township - 4,906 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Huffman Covered Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 92 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Wayne National Forest | NOBLE COUNTY LINE |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10687 |
| 10 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.5 acres | Wayne National Forest | LONG RUN |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | HARRIETSVILLE |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16016 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 97 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huffman Covered Bridge between 1853 and 1974: 79 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
 | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
 | Trillium sessile L. | 1884 | not recorded | Macksburg |
 | Colletotrichum trifolii Bain | 1911 | Scarberry J. J. | MACKSBURG |
 | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
 | Populus tremuloides Michx. | 1922 | Davis, H.A. | Marion |
 | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
All 97 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleburg, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middleburg | $10,000 | Pictures were provided of damage to a home caused by a large tree limb, with some roof damage. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Middleburg | - | Near Middleburg, Route 564 had to be closed when flood waters reached 18 inches deep. West of Batesville, county road 31 flooded. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Middleburg | - | no account filed |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
Excellent the very popular multiple kingpost truss plan.The kingpost was one Fair keeps it painted a deep barn red with the metal roof painted green. Good The overall condition of the bridge is good as it has never carried panel multiple kingpost built of native white oak.It is 587" long, and ll'8" wide. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian) .L 19th Century - Urban Planning Other (Specify) - Invention STATEMENT OF
Barnesville, via Carlisle, Middleburg and Salem. The road later be- came SR 564 and in 1928 or 1929, it was relocated, by-passing the later became the property of Christian Huffman, an early settler in Tamilies owned much land in Jefferson Township and it was from this DEC31 1974 Conservation Transportation Commerce SIGNIFICANCE losophy Engineering Military Architecture pioneer Huffmans.
Science REGISTER Theater itarian Communications Literature Music Agriculture Landscape NATIONAL Art Religion/Phi RECEIVED Industry Sculpture the only road in this township.It was the road from Marietta to Social/Human- Prehistoric Creek and used the rather steep hillsides for raising sheep.It is tion system.The Huffman Bridge is also one of the few covered Aboriginal pioneer Huffman Family that the covered bridge takes its name. bridges remaining in Noble County out of over one hundred that once Education spanned its small streams.
as a reminder of the days when Noble County was largely agricultural Political side overlooking the creek and it is the burial place of some of the same site that washed out in the l9i3 flood.For many years, this was v SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1914 Today, most of this area of Noble County is being strip-mined and the Neptune owned the land where the covered bridge is located, and it 1914 said that an old Huffman Cemetary is located somewhere on the hill- this area who came here from Germany.Both the Neptune and Huffman The Huffman Bridge was built in l9l4 to replace another bridge on the The Huffmans farmed the fertile valley of the Middle Fork of Duck
The whole case file for this property - 1,668 words, 10 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 75001513, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Henry Roman Catholic Church and Rectory | 2.7 miles | 1982 |
 | St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception | 5.0 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75001513 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Noble County | All 10 listed properties in this county. |
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