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 Levi Anderson House is a historic house in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio, United States. Located along Anderson Station Road west of the city of Chillicothe, it is a fine example of the Greek Revival farmhouses of early nineteenth-century rural Ross County.”
Wikipedia article Levi Anderson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001524- 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.
Fires near this property
13 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Anderson, Levi, House between
2002 and 2020, burning about 41 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
7
Smoking
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 1,604 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Anderson, Levi, House between 1874 and
1975: 1,164 Animalia, 349 Fungi, 84 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Anderson, Levi, House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chillicothe, the town this property stands in, in 92 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 56 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 6 flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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.
Problems with high water occurred across the county. A roof of a gas station on the west side of Chillicothe collapsed under the weight of the heavy rain.
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
1,938 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
Situated near the North Branch of Paint Creek, the two story the west side of the rear wing is a door way under a radiating stone Quarter elliptical ventilation openings, which are louvered, are in the attic walls at the gable ends. because of their lack of modernity, present a cohesive cluster of tion with a cement floor poured in 1908. A 46 foot by 74 foot board CONDITION UNEXPOSED XEXCELLENT XALTERED broken course sandstone. Levi Anderson House has a facade of Flemish bond brick construction. They are decorated by cut stone radiating lintels with keystones and The remainder of the building is of common bond brick construction. _UNALTERED lintel with a keystone. door have slight Gothic detailing in the form of lancet panels.
On and side lights.Over the door is a transom.The pilasters flanking the CHECK ONE is inset near the south wall. XORIGINAL SITE _DETERIORATED There is a basement under the rear wing. The foundation is of cut springhouse with a first level of cut broken course sandstone and The side of the medium gable roof faces the facade.The plain boxed chimneys straddle the ridge line of the main block and two chimneys support a full entablature with abracketed cornice. The rectangular windows,6 lights over 6 are of double hung sash. - FAIR _GOOD 7 DESCRIPTION The main entrance, centered in the facade is protected by a one story 7 foot by 20 foot porch with white fluted and paired Greek Doric in the upper part and two panels below, is flanked by multiple pilasters windows with jack arches.
A window of 8 lights over 8 and double hung The house was situated on a 714 acre tract in 1845.
The significance of the house, which can be definitively documented of 19th century farm buildings. migrated to the Scioto Valley with his brother, Joshua in 1795. They Cleveland (1,076) and was an early seat of commerce and industry in Ohio. Levi Anderson established a factory for cording, weaving operation of the farm and undertook great cattle drives to eastern in Union Township in 1850, James R. Anderson was third in total wealth in chattels, money, and credits.
1700-1799 ART PERIOD LAW X1800-1899 EDUCATION RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC THEATER BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE MILITARY PREHISTORIC XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1400-1499 LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE _TRANSPORTATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT and spinning in Chillicothe.When Chillicothe was incorporated in _ECONOMICS OTHER (SPECIFY) _ENGINEERING _CONSERVATION The probable builder of the house was William Robinson who _PHILOSOPHY in Ross County.Joshua was killed in the battle. came in company with General Nathanial Massie and were in the Battle -1600-1699 outbuildings; thus forming a cohesive farm unit. - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN that Robinson built the rear portion of the house.
_COMMERCE architecture and unique setting in a relatively unspoiled cluster In 1838 the property was purchased by Levi Anderson as early as 1826,lies in historical _1900- - MUSIC COMMUNITY PLANNING -INVENTION appointed a justice of the peace in 1809. Robinson served as a 1838, Anderson was one of the original councilmen. to the farm. His son James R. Anderson (1817-1889) expanded the Tax records show that of the approximately 360 taxpayers of Reeve's Crossing (1795), the last battle between whites and Indians The house is an unspoiled example of the traditional "L" The house is nicely landscaped and situated amid 19th century markets. ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Union township. executed by Gershon Anderson, a brother of Levi Anderson.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001524, 14 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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