Michaels Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. S of Kansas on OH 635, Kansas
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79001943 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Michaels Farm: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. 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
Basic Refractories Quarry	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
Maple Grove Lime Plant	Chromium	Producer
Maple Grove Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1901 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Bascom quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Umsted Farm	7.6 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001943 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca County	All 46 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.
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.