BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1975 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Somerset Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.
The listing
- Address. Main St. from High St. to properties facing Market Sq; Columbus St. from jct. with Sheridan and Gay Sts., Somerset
- When was it listed? September 1975
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 75001516 - 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
1909 to 1984The ground this property stands on, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
15 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Somerset Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2223 |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15132 |
| 10 April 2017 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7895 |
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15487 |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15486 |
| 22 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10429 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10228 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Somerset Historic District: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Busse Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Busse Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Glass Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Newspapers printed here
1 paper1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Somerset Press | 1873 to 1977 |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited 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.
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sheridan House | 0.7 miles | 1980 |
 | Saint Joseph's Catholic Church | 2.5 miles | 1986 |
 | Randolph Mitchell House | 2.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Parks Covered Bridge | 3.2 miles | 1974 |
 | Bowman Mill Covered Bridge | 3.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Glenford Bank | 5.6 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75001516 in Record Group 79. |
| Perry County | All 13 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.