BlockFrom the record
One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
J. L. Hamilton Residence
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Hamilton, J. L., Residence - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 6273 Cosgray Rd., Amlin, 43016
- When was it listed? 1979-04-11
- Category. building
- Also known as. Washington Township MRA
- Township. Washington township
- National Register reference number. 79002887 - 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
1901 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
333 wordsThis property stands in Washington Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 333 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,418 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,418 specimens collected within 10 miles of J. L. Hamilton Residence between 1804 and 1975: 1,373 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, A. White (Ohio State Univ.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana | 1804 | Dr. Paddock | Worthington |
 | Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl. | 1805 | J. R. Paddock | Worthington |
 | Carex comosa Boott | 1809 | Collector unknown | Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
 | Polioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | Muriealin, J | Flint? |
 | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1877 | P.N. Wheaton | Columbus |
 | Aster firmus Nees | 1890 | Wilcox, E.V. | N. Columbus |
 | Erythronium albidum Nutt. | 1890 | Richardson, H.H. | North Columbus |
 | Marchantia polymorpha L. | 1893 | E. W. Wilcox | Columbus, Clintonville |
 | Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
All 1,418 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of J. L. Hamilton Residence: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darby Number 220 Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amlin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Lightning | Amlin | $1,000 | Lightning hit a structure at the intersection of Cosgray and Hayden Roads in Hilliard. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Hilliard quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hilliard quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
From the nomination file
285 words on recordWhen 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 - 285 words, 4 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002887, 4 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl H. Shier Barn | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
| Carl H. Shier Chicken House | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
 | Carl H. Shier House | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Washington Township Voting Hall | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
| Louis Rings Barn #1 | 1.0 miles | 1979 | |
| Louis Rings Barn #2 | 1.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002887 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 343 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.
- 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.