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Photograph of Marquart-Mercer Farm
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marquart-Mercer Farm

Built in 1827 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1827, Federal architecture.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. SW of Springfield, Springfield
  • When was it listed? July 1979
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1827
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79001791 - 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Marquart-Mercer Farm in 2002, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 February 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 October 2002Naturalunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Marquart-Mercer Farm: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canal Winchester PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Canal Winchester PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Demmy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Demmy Sand and Gravel.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keifer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keifer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
S & W Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Springfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Springfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Springfield Globe-Republic1884 to 1887
Springfield Daily Republic1887 to 1888

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Enon Road Stone Arch Culvert2.8 miles2009
Main Street Buildings (Boundary Increase)3.1 miles2000
Brewer Log House3.5 miles1974
C. A. Reeser House4.0 miles1980
South Fountain Avenue Historic District4.2 miles1983
Francis Bookwalter House4.3 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 41 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.