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Photograph of Elmwood Place
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Elmwood Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Union 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. SW of Irwin on OH 161, Irwin
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. building
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79001972 - 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

1916 to 1992

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Elmwood Place, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet covering Elmwood Place, surveyed 1916

Fires near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Elmwood Place in 2002, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Maps showing this location

8 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

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Reed Covered Bridge5.9 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001972 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union CountyAll 7 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.