Baughman Memorial Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Muskingum County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. W of Frazeysburg on OH 586, Frazeysburg
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. site
National Register reference number. 79001909 - 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

36 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Baughman Memorial Park between 2011 and 2020, burning about 127 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
24 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9047
27 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9045
16 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1842
3 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8628
5 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1841
12 June 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15744
19 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8307
17 May 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Baughman Memorial Park: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Frazeysburg Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Frazeysburg Pit	Clay	Producer
Jones Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jones Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001909 in Record Group 79.
Muskingum County	All 81 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.