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
“The Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge, near Minford, Ohio, was built in 1867. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Scioto County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.78002185- 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 29 fires within 5 miles of Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge between
2004 and 2020, burning about 315 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Debris and open burning
13
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
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 397 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge between 1885 and
1975: 289 Animalia, 93 Fungi, 12 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Bennett Schoolhouse Road Covered Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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
Minford, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.
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
1,695 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
Bridge No. CR 12-04,38 (35-73-03) is on the Bennett School House- South Webster Road, 3 1/2 miles southeast of Minford, Scioto County, -repairs were made to the bridge in approximately 1962 by then County Engineer, Harlan Danner, who strengthened and CONDITION UNALTERED EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION FAIR River in Harrison Township. It is a covered timber bridge on gravity-type abutments. It has a double multiple king post truss, consisting of l4 panels XORIGINAL SITE CHECK ONE added a brace to the flooring system. Ohio, and 3 miles east of State Route the Little Scioto - UNEXPOSED structure is 15'5"in width with a roadway width of ll'5" and a with a clear span of l05 feet and a truss span of 1i0 feet. portal height of 12'6". It has a hip roof line which is metal. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
It is a vanishing landmark, symbolic of the quiet and Built at Harrison's Mill in the Tuttleville community, it South Webster and Minford, Ohio, and a north-south link between and bygone days. Its builder, Van Buren Farney, was born February Scioto County, Ohio with his parents at the age of four (4). Had by Robert S. Wynn, a prominent area contractor of public works.
1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY SIGNIFICANCE EDUCATION X800-1899 ART SCULPTURE AGRICULTURE MILITARY SCIENCE LAW INDUSTRY XARCHITECTURE X_ENGINEERING _COMMUNICATIONS It is one of two remaining such structures in Scioto County of Americana, is one of those covered timber bridges whose ranks was an inportant east-west link in the transportation between _PREHISTORIC - EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT XTRANSPORTATION a monument to the artistry of our forefathers who were artisans are rapidly being diminished by time and nature.It is one of _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _COMMERCE -CONSERVATION The Bennett School House Covered vital piece At the age of eighteen began his own contracting business, simplicity of a happier day, an inheritance from early America, -1400-1499 -RELIGION - LITERATURE constructing bridges, piers, etc.in the 1850's and 1860is.
-THEATER -1900- -MUSIC COMMUNITY PLANNING ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC northeastern Scioto County and the town of Portsmouth. and is filled with memories for older Scioto Countians. a common school education. and one a very few links in the county between present America Employed at the age of seventeen (l7) O
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002185, 13 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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