Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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
one of 16 National Register listings in Lawrence County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002097- 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
26 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Old Lawrence County Jail between
2001 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Other causes
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 863 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Old Lawrence County Jail between 1840 and
1972: 611 Animalia, 115 Fungi, 114 Plantae, 20 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Old Lawrence County Jail: 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Nickel. 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
Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 4 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
1,419 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
The two-story Old Lawrence County Jail was built of stone in 1846-7. The CONDITION UNALTERED XALTERED RUINS EXCELLENT XGOOD DETERIORATED CHECK ONE building is square in plan,faced with vermiculated ashlar blocks.The the front on the first floor but has three windows on the second floor.The block.The roof is hip with a single chimney on the north side. the north end of the building) on the first floor and three windows on the _UNEXPOSED unadorned.To either side of the entrance is a single 2/2 pane window. sides of the building have three windows and a deeply recessed door (toward the length from north to south.Partitions have been removed and added to suit various owners since 1852when the building ceased to be used as a jail.
the second floor there are two,2/2 pane windowsplaced slightly further in -FAIR toward the center than those below.The rear of the building is the same as Originally all cell windows had bars.The interior has a center hall running second floor.The door on the west side has been filled in with concrete AREAS OF
Statement of significance
County was founded March 1, 1816 and was named for Captain James Lawrence, a 1817 by Edward Tapper, and the first county buildings were erected shortly three months, however, this idea was abandoned and the auditor was directed to Very little remains of Burlington, the first county seat of Lawrence County 1700-1799 1400-1499 EDUCATION X1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD THEATER RELIGION BUILDER/ARCHITECT ART SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION MILITARY LITERATURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC John Sperry _COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT make arrangements for constructing an entirely new jail.A contract was awarded today.The jail building is the only structure surviving from this period. XARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY. continued in this use to the present.
was expressed in moving the county seat to Ironton, the center of the iron PREHISTORIC SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _COMMUNICATIONS down) were abandoned.The jail was converted to a private residence and has Architecturally, it is one of three pre-Civil War stone jails in Ohio.Lawrence The Old Lawrence County Jail is the only Lawrence County building remaining to settle upon a county seat and since Burlington was the only settlement within -1600-1699 posed constructing an addition to the original 1817 log and frame jail.After -1500-1599 -SCIENCE county seat was moved to Ironton in 1852,and the jail and courthouse torn -1900- -MUSIC -LAW the county limits, it was named the county seat.
SPECIFIC DATES 1846-1847 INVENTION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT iron furnaces were established throughout the area.These flourished between the pressed about the dilapidated condition of the county buildings, and interest producing area. Burlington was laid out in thereafter.Lawrence County was rich in iron ore and a number of cold blast pig Perhaps in response to this concern, the county commissioners pro- to John Sperry on August 5,1846.He completed the building in a year and on _INDUSTRY W. Virginia. Publishing Co. 1916. Chicago & Toledo. 1882.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002097, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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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