Built in 1884. 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 Reed Bridge, near Marysville, Ohio, United States, was a Partridge truss covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Reed Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 4 National Register listings in Union County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1884.
National Register reference number.75001547- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 362 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 362 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Reed Covered Bridge between 1918 and
1975: 352 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Andrew R. Moldenke 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
Marysville, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 7 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.
Damage from the tornado consisted of several large tree limbs and trees down. Light structural damage occurred to several homes near State Route 38 and Timberview Drive. This damage included the loss of shingles and siding. The most significant damage occurred to a home along State Route 38 which suffered near total roof loss. Based on the damage, wind speeds were estimated to be around 85 miles per hour.
The weak tornado began on a property near Payne Road just west of Marysville, Ohio. The tornado toppled a small silo, several small to medium-sized trees, and caused minor damage to an older barn and a few roof shingles. Additional damage occurred to a large metal barn located around a third of a mile to the north. This barn sustained uplift of the roof along with partial collapse of the metal walls. In addition, several trees were snapped in the woods adjacent to the barn.
High water was moving over State Route 245 at Poling Road, Wilbur Road was closed due to high moving water, and Bear Swamp Road at Allen Center Road was covered by water due to heavy rainfall.
1 paper published in this town,
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0 pages. 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.
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
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From the nomination file
1,889 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
boarded, with roofed windows running the length of the span on both truss plan patented in 1872 by Reuban Partridge of Marysville, Ohio. posts, the chords in 2 sections and the bifurcated iron footpieces. covered bridges, 1" steel rods have been added from upper to lower of the bridge, but were undoubtedly cut out later to improve vision with DEC31 1974 CONDITION NATIONAL Excellent abutments are stone. Moved Good Ruins RECEIVED Fair Original Site sprung together andbolted so their ends rest against the posts and white paint on the portals.
The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered the advent of the automobile.The Reed Bridge is unpainted except for (Check One) chords.Mr.Partridge claimed as new his angling df the braces and The 2 braces of each end are parallel with each other and pass upon bridge spanning Big Darby Creek 3z miles south of Marysville in Darby In all the Partridge trusses standing today, the braces are double and and lower chords and all truss diagonals are pine, while the end posts span of 150'. The overall width is 20'3" with a roadway width of 16'2".
REGISTER the counterbraces are triple.In the 5 Union County Partridge truss and the one vertical in the center of the bridge are oak.The floor and 2 sections, the ties or posts are securely bolted to the chords and are interposed between the ends of the braces and the posts and the chord between each truss panel.The trusses of the Reed Bridge are 15 chords.These footpieces may be omitted and the ends of the braces arranged in pairs and stand at an angle of 45with the horizontal plane.
Art Theater in the Columbus Bridge Company.Mr.Partridge has the unhappy distinc- landmark is a fitting monument to kindly old Reuban Partridge who built County and was quite well-known there.He built covered bridges in 1963,the State rerouted SR 38,by-passing the Reed Bridge which reverted 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001547, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
2 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.
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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