Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 Belle Hall Covered Bridge, east of Croton, Ohio, was a covered bridge which was built in 1879. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Belle Hall Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.76001464- 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. Museums hold 1,125 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Belle Hall Covered Bridge between 1881 and
1975: 1,105 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, Bales, B. R. 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
Croton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado.
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
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From the nomination file
2,324 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
layer, laid crosswise. The abutments are cut-stone, dry laid- diagonal missing at that time. On August 8, 1971, a trusk loaded with CONDITION UNEXPOSED DATE DETERIORATED EXCELLENT UNALTERED FAIR stone abutments. the bridge does present an attractive appearance and seems to be adequate 16 tons attempted to cross this b ridge and the floor system failed and we cannot be sure just when all these changes took place.Pictures of second truss diagonals are missing on both sides of the bridge at both for the small amount of traffic on this little-used township road The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered bridge not.The steel cables mentioned above are no longer there.
red on both siding and portals after the rebuilding mentioned above, and CHECK ONE from near the top of the end posts and down beneath the floor under the has vertical, high-boarded siding, a metal roof, straight portals and cut- X_GOOD township road 56 Cross Road), Licking County, Ohio.
This old span seats are also steel I beams.A new floor was put in, too.We do not ple kingpost with an open center panel, 56i long overall with a clear span the bridge taken in the early 1950's show 2-7/8steel cables running truss diagonals were there in the early 1950is.A196g photo shows one _MOVED RUINS sion members and the center post or kingpost, is the tension member- This know if the rest of the missing truss members weat out at that time or In the early 1950's, the bridge was painted white with black and white most numerous of our wooden trusses.
The bridge was named for a lady named Belle Hall who lived not far from the bridge. Her son, Gerald Hall still lives on Dutch Cross Road near the 1887 1600-1699 ART PHILOSOPHY EDUCATION THEATER PERIOD CONSERVATION ARCHITECTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT INVENTION MILITARY SCIENCE XENGINEERING EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS AGRICULTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE five years. INDUSTRY Historic XTRANSPORTATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT for posterity. The Belle Hall Bridge is of simple design, its trusses pinned together with _COMMUNICATIONS around eighty of these roofed spans.It was built in l887,builder unknown.
_1700-1799 _COMMERCE Township, Licking County, and one of only seven left in a county that once had -MUSIC _LITERATURE, -_1400-1499 - RELIGION - 1900- - - 1500-1599 -COMMUNITY PLANNING The Belle Hall Covered Bridge is the last such structure remaining in Bennington of the Licking River.Bennington Township never had more than 4 or 5 covered proud and fond of this little covered bridge and want to see it preserved township road, in a scenic setting.The people of Bennington Township are
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001464, 20 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
3 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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