Chillicothe Water And Power Company Pumping Station
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 Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station is a historic building on the northern side of Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. A Gothic Revival structure built in 1881, it was constructed to house the city's waterworks and power plant.”
Wikipedia article Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 22 National Register listings in Ross County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001932- 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
25 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Chillicothe Water And Power Company Pumping Station between
2002 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
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 1,786 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Chillicothe Water And Power Company Pumping Station between 1874 and
1975: 1,291 Animalia, 397 Fungi, 86 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Chillicothe Water And Power Company Pumping Station: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chillicothe, the town this property stands in, in 92 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 56 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 6 flood, 3 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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.
Problems with high water occurred across the county. A roof of a gas station on the west side of Chillicothe collapsed under the weight of the heavy rain.
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
pending.
From the nomination file
1,957 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 Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station is an utilitarian building lies at the edge of Yoctangee Park near the railroad tracks and the Scioto River levee. Chillicothe Business District, a National Register Historic District. The Pumping Station itself is a slightly irregular rectangular one-story building The tower is the building's most notable feature. Its pyramidal slate roof is which run around the tower. The tower's first floor window has been partially bricked is to the right of the afore-mentioned window, and consists of a single, four-paneled the bricked-in window of the tower. The facade and the NW side of the Pumping Station at one time each had three large have been bricked in; the side windows have been partially covered by the cinder-block addition (see below).
The brick round-arches remain, however. It is evident that the original windows were divided into two parts by the still-existing stone belt course. The sills of the windows were formed by a narrower belt course; both belt courses run Both of them, however, have a Tudor arch over four openings, divided by brick course and they are divided at mid-section by the other wider belt course. (like the tower), and louvred sides. On the interior, the features which contribute to the
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station is being nominated on the ficant also for the fact that the Water Company made a deliberate effort to construct a Power House, the well, a large reservoir (located on Belleview Hill several blocks away) Department personnel and equipment out of the building, and current plans are to lease the building to the Jaycees for rehabilitation and eventual use as a community center. Igcioto Gazette, Aug. 10, 1881 commerce 1400-1499 1500-1599 communications humanitarian education 1700-1799 1600-1699 industry politics/government engineering theater Period agriculture literature be rather fanciful in architecture, so as to be an ornament to the park."l Although some- Specific dates 8.
Significance Gothic architecture was used for utilitarian structures such as this one.It is signi- 1900- new waterworks project (begun in 1881 and completed in 1882)including construction of the the project and then goes on to state,"It is intended to erect a power house which shall _ archeology-prehistoric _ community planning _ landscape architecture _ religion what compromised by the alterations made to it, the Power House is still recognized local- 1y as an asset to Yoctangee Park. The City of Chillicothe recently moved its Service 1882 economics art 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001932, 14 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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