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 Philip Moore Stone House is located on Ohio State Route 239 in Washington Township, Scioto County, Ohio. The property was placed on the National Register on 1975-10-21.”
Wikipedia article Philip Moore Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Scioto County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001531- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Moore, Philip, Stone House between
1997 and 2020, burning about 4,325 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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
56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Arson/incendiarism
18
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Smoking
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 1,484 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Moore, Philip, Stone House between 1884 and
1975: 1,338 Animalia, 81 Plantae, 57 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. 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 federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Moore, Philip, Stone House: 1 plant, 1 prospect, 1 producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Portsmouth, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood.
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.
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
1,603 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
residential, two-story, field stone house with a 1 1/2 story wing attached on the back and terial is natural field stone, rubble squared coursing, for the 2 1/2 story, rectangular, are two first floor windows on either side of a central door, evenly spaced. There are CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT MOVED DETERIORATED UNALTERED DESCRIPTION RUINS show beautiful keystone construction.
The roof is supported by hand-hewn rafters connected CHECK ONE XALTERED The basic architectural structure of the house is in good condition.T The restoration The physical appearance at the time of purchase, before restoration was begun: A single, cellar rooms with the same stone wall construction and with an outside entrance on the glass plain panel above two wooden panels.At time of purchase there was a first story brick stack straddle ridge chimney is located on the north side of the house at present. XFAIR flooring is nailed to huge timbers(some with the bark still attached) with square nails. two small window openings on either side of the south chimney at the attic level. Neither of these windows have panes at this time.
Interior:There are 3 rooms on the first floor and 2 rooms with one bath on the second with wooden pegs. The lintels over all the windows and doors are solid oak. There are stairway was to the right of the fireplace on the south wall, spiral in type, and enclosed structural opening,is flat with a 9 stone arch radiating voussoirs with keystone.There XORIGINAL SITE plan is to expose the original structure as part of the decor. south side.The roof over the front rectangular upright section is a medium gable.The Originally, a chimney was also on the south side. There is a single chimney, also brick beams and the whitewash covering these beams and the boards between the beams.
Scioto County area was organized in this house in the early 1800's. The people who County mentioñs that Rev. Henry Smith, Henry B. Bascom, the eccentric and renowned, This house would have been a part of the town of Alexandria, located at the point where across the Scioto River and established the city of Portsmouth, Ohio.
1600-1699 1400-1499 INVENTION COMMERCE PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ART LAW AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE XARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY SCIENCE TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE XRELIGION X1700-1799 _COMMUNICATIONS _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PREHISTORIC attended the meetings in this house became the first members of Bigelow's Methodist -1800-1899 _CONSERVATION This house is probably most significant because of its function as an early Methodist America's first Methodist Bishop and was sent from England in 177l by John Wesley. -1500-1599 was eventually destroyed and in the early1800's the inhabitants moved to higher ground - ENGINEERING _1900. MUSIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING SPECIFIC DATES church, in a country where Methodism was just being taught.
ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC This fact makes the house The Philip Moore Stone House was built in 1797.The first Society of Methodism in the Built in 1797
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001531, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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.
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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