Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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 Columbiana County Infirmary is located near Lisbon, Ohio. The four building complex provided care for the poor and mentally ill of the county.”
Wikipedia article Columbiana County Infirmary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 35 National Register listings in Columbiana County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Columbiana County.
National Register reference number.79001795- 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
12 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Columbiana County Infirmary between
2003 and 2016, burning about 97 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
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Smoking
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 586 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Columbiana County Infirmary between 1878 and
1975: 311 Animalia, 237 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron 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 Columbiana County Infirmary: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 36 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A microburst with winds estimated at around 80 MPH produced damage across the Lisbon area. The microburst produced a path of sporadic wind damage about 1.5 miles in length. The width varied from about 100 feet near the start of the track to nearly 100 yards at the end. The path of the microburst was directed west to east across Ohio SR 30/45 approximately 3.5 miles southeast of Lisbon. One house sustained some structural damage near the roof and second story balcony. A mobile home was lifted from its foundation and several smaller sheds and out-buildings on the property were also damaged or destroyed. In addition, numerous trees and power lines were downed by the microburst winds.
A brief tornado (F0) touched down briefly near the intersection of Routes 45 and 517 on the northwest side of Lisbon. The tornado was approximated 15 yards wide and was on the ground for about a tenth of a mile. The only associated damage was a few downed trees and three pieces of aluminum siding ripped from the side of a nearby home.
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
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From the nomination file
1,677 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 Columbiana County Infirmary is a complex of four brick buildings, three of A county road is at the base of the elevation and a fourth building, the power house, is located across the road from this grouping. The northernmost building surrounding the courtyard, the superintendent's house, was probably built about 1845 although the county histories and commissioners journals are unclear as to the exact date of construction. It is a 21/2 story brick has a gable slate roof and a 6 bay facade measuring 52 feet and 3 bay side elevations measuring 32 feet. The windows are 6/6 double hung sash throughout and have stone lug Tevel on the eastern elevation and there are doorways at the first floor Tevel at the rear and western side elevation. Tirst level in stone and the upper two in brick.
It has a gabled slate roof and a single simple, open two-story veranda and is regularly pierced with 6/6 double hung windows a full cut stone basement. It has a gabled slate roof with two mental ventilator shafts wooden porch."The side elevations have been stuccoed although portions of this covering have fallen off. Across the road from the insane building is a functionally designed two-story The boundaries are drawn to include only these four structures and a small stone CONDITION DETERIORATED UNALTERED EXCELLENT XALTERED GOOD _UNEXPOSED connected with the county dog kennel that have adversely affected its integrity.
erected in the 19th century. population. As a consequence, in 1829 they purchased a 200 acre farm several miles west supervised the cultivation of hay, wheat,-and all the vegetables utilized at the Infirmary.
The 1905 county history noted with pleasure that the population of the Infirmary had de- 1400-1499 1700-1799 1500-1599 ENGINEERING ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY ECONOMICS EDUCATION PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC THEATER XARCHITECTURE LITERATURE RELIGION MILITARY INDUSTRY _TRANSPORTATION industry and prosperity throughout the county." 1600-1699 _COMMUNICATIONS buildings illustrate the utilitarian vernacular forms common to institutional structures Since the organization of the earliest counties in the state the county governments grouping.The steam heating plant across the road from the insane building was constructed included the renovation of the superintendent's house and the construction of the insane ings surrounding a grassy courtyard constitutes anattractive and impressive 19th century wider scope"was developed to care for the "infirm and unfortunate"of the county.This - CONSERVATION in the construction of"poor houses"and infirmaries.Few counties in the state labor to be the most therapeutic environment for the county's indigent and mentally ill of the century,a Mr.
and Mrs.E.R. Riddle served as the superintendent and matron.They -SCIENCE X.SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN forms the western side of the complex was constructed and an additional 133 acres was creased between 1880 and 1905 which was attributed to the"enhanced conditions of health, -1900- -MUSIC -LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING While they are not constructed in any identifiable architectural style, these and reportedly made anattractive contrast to the large white frame barn to the rear of the ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC grouping. have the excellent complex at the Columbiana County Infirmary.These four masonry build- - INVENTION The Columbiana County Commissioners,like.many others in the state, considered farm The population of the Infirmary was generally over 1o0 and included a majority of in 1880.
indigents anda far smaller percentage of"insane,"epileptic,"and"idiotic."At the turn
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001795, 13 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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