Rankin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Vernon, 7th, Monroe and 4th Sts, Ironton
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. district
National Register reference number. 79001876 - 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.

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rankin Historic District, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet covering Rankin Historic District, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Rankin Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,215 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 were 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	111
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Other causes	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM 09/09
7 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Wayne National Forest	WIND FIRE
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	ST. MARY'S CHURCH #1
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	IRONTON #1 FIRE
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HANGING ROCK SPUR A
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	CABIN

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rankin Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ironton Plant Number 85	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Newspapers printed here

1 paper

1 paper 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Ironton News	1899 to 1937

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1898 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Downtown Ironton Historic District	under 500 feet	2009
Brumberg Building	0.3 miles	2008
Marlow Theatre	0.3 miles	2008
Fifth and Lawrence Streets Residential District	0.3 miles	1978
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall	0.3 miles	2012
Marting Hotel	0.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001876 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 20 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.