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
“Precious Blood Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Chickasaw, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1903 and still an active parish, the church historically owned two buildings constructed in its early years that have been designated as historic sites.”
Wikipedia article Precious Blood Catholic Church (Chickasaw, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 28 National Register listings in Mercer County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79002848- 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.
The township is not cut up by any large streams of water. Chickasaw Creek, Little Beaver and Burnt Wood creeks all flow into the Great Reservoir, passing through portions of Marion and Franklin townships. This was the first township in the county to begin the building of gravel roads. It kept on with the work until the whole township is now supplied with the very best roads to be found in the county. There has been a steady improvement in all that goes to make a well-improved agricultural country. The farms have large and commodious barns and good, substantial, brick and frame houses of modern style and architecture. The township is dotted over with elegant churches and good schoolhouses. All of the churches in this township, without exception, are Roman Catholic and number six in all. The greater part of the population is now, as it always has been, composed of people of German nativity or ancestry.
As in nearly all the townships, the first settlers selected homes on and along the streams of water. On Chickasaw Creek were located the families of Samuel Gray, Charles Botkin and John Miller, who were trustees in 1833. The first road supervisors, appointed in August, 1833, were Charles Botkin, William Botkin, William Ballinger, John Ballinger, Alexander Miller, William B. Winter, James L. Simes, Abel Worthington, John M. Gogil, Samuel T. Grant, John Davis, John Sprague, John Miller, Mathew Kearns, Samuel
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 104 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Chickasaw School and Rectory between 1886 and
1975: 98 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Brown, H P, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chickasaw, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
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
914 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 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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79002848, 7 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.
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.
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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