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Muskingum College Campus Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1911.

From the record

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

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

The listing

  • Address. U.S. 22, New Concord
  • When was it listed? June 1979
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 79001910 - 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

1911 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Muskingum College Campus Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Muskingum College Campus Historic District, surveyed 1911

Fires near this property

42 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Muskingum College Campus Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 52 acres 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15863
13 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2012Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13509

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Muskingum College Campus Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Westland QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Westland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

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
Paul Hall, Muskingum College0.2 miles1973
William Rainey Harper Log House0.3 miles1978
John Glenn Boyhood Home0.3 miles2018
David Stormont House0.3 miles1983
"S" Bridge II0.7 miles1973
Ralph Hardesty Stone House3.0 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001910 in Record Group 79.
Muskingum CountyAll 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.