St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory

This property stands in Recovery Township. History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 gives that township a chapter of its own.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory between 1888 and 1973: 209 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., C. Clark 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	unnamed	1934	P. P. Pirone	Coldwater
	Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)	1944	H. Price	Wabash River
	Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Fort Recovery
	Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789	1892	Landis, H. A.	Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
	Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon	1906	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
	Colletotrichum cereale Manns	1908	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
	Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson	1908	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
	Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis	1908	A. D. Selby	Sharpsburg.
	Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)	1909	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
	Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 1792	1911	L. L. Walters	Ft Recovery, 4 mi SE
	Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Monterey
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Fort Recovery(3 mi E)

All 234 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1908 USGS St. Henry quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Coldwater quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 971 words, 8 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002820, 8 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

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
	St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory	1.6 miles	1979
	St. Peter Catholic Church and Rectory	1.6 miles	1979
	Fort Recovery Site	2.4 miles	1970
	St. Wendelin Catholic Church, School, and Rectory	3.2 miles	1979
	Wallischeck Homestead	3.5 miles	1978
	St. Paul's Catholic Church and Rectory	4.4 miles	1979