Built in 1786. 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
“Seven Ranges Terminus is a stone surveying marker near Magnolia, Ohio that marks the completion in 1786 of the first step in opening the lands northwest of the Ohio River to sale and settlement by Americans. This survey marked the first application of the rectangular plan for subdividing land in the United States, which was to be widely used in nearly all later surveys of western lands in the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Seven Ranges Terminus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 81 National Register listings in Stark County · listed in 1976 · category: Site · built in 1786.
National Register reference number.76001527- 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 9 fires within 5 miles of Seven Ranges Terminus between
2003 and 2020, burning about 18 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
4
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 101 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Seven Ranges Terminus between 1900 and
1951: 101 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. W. 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
8 workings within 5 miles of Seven Ranges Terminus: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. 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
Magnolia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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
1,960 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
Warren Bowman farm near Magnolia, Ohio, 288' from Farber road on CONDITION UNEXPOSED MOVED EXCELLENT RUINS XGOOD Tuscarawas counties. CHECK ONE DESCRIPTION XUNALTERED and marks the seventh range of townships surveyed in the North- exactly 42 miles due west of the beginning point for surveying XORIGINAL SITE the public lands of the United States (on the National Register) -DETERIORATED DATE. west Territory. It marks the junction of Stark, Carroll, and a rolling hillside which is uncultivated.The marking stone is is marked with an incised surveyors cross. The small, granite marker is about 12" high and 6" across.The top AREAS OF
Statement of significance
of townships and marks the 1776 by the nation's first geographer, Thomas Hutchins, established that the The use of the rectangular survey system was specified in the Ordinance of Pennsylvania to the Ohio River where, on the north side of the river, they line, beginning on September 30, 1785. By September 1786, Hutchins had 1786 1400-1499 domain. COMMERCE SCIENCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT THEATER SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY TRANSPORTATION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC LITERATURE From this point Hutchins supervised the running of the first east-west base X.EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT designated as a range.
SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN Land lying immediately northwest of the Ohio River was the most accessible The marker is placed at the terminus of the seventh range miles was a township corner and from these corners lines were run south accurate and convenient and the system was used to survey millions of acres boundary commissioners surveyed a line due north from the northwest corner of -PHILOSOPHY surveyed 4miles of base line and his men had completed four ranges.In The ordinance required that all public lands be divided into townships six of land making up thirty-one states which were created out of the public - INVENTION the first land the U.S.endeavored to sell.Between June and August of 1785 - CONSERVATION planted a stake marking the beginning point of the U.S. public land survey.
May 1785"for ascertaining the mode of disposing lands in the western territory." April 1787 Hutchins'subordinates resumed the survey, completing a total of _PREHISTORIC -1500-1599 _ENGINEERING _RELIGION - EDUCATION -1600-1699 -1800-1899 Board of Treasury and thus sale of public lands in the west" could begin. completion of the first phase of the U.S.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001527, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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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